Multiple award-winning (Esquire Gold Award, Silver Award, Downbeat
Poll, Metronome Poll, more) jazz pianist who went on to play with the
groups of
Louis Armstrong,
Benny Carter,
Jimmie Noone, and
Willie Bryant. In 1935, he went on
tour with
Benny Goodman and
Gene Krupa as the
Benny Goodman Trio, which made jazz
history. Teddy Wilson became one of the best-known pianists in the
world of jazz, with a quiet, neat and lightly-swinging style.