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Jazz Musician of the Day: Neil Cowley

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All About Jazz is celebrating Neil Cowley's birthday today!

As a young boy, London-born Neil Cowley studied classical music at the prestigious Royal Academy, and by the age of 10 had performed a Shostakovich piano concerto to a full house at London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall. By his mid-teens, Cowley had joined a friend in a Blues Brothers tribute band, “as a way” he says “of getting into pubs”, yet the London pub circuit served him well--he learned to play classic... Read more.

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