BOBBY WEST
Hard Bop • United States
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West was born a fifth generation Louisianian, with deep ancestral roots in New Orleans, and prior to that, recently discovered lineages to the Caribbean and West Africa.
When Bobby was born the doctor said his fingers were so long that he’d either be a piano player or a pick pocket. Fortunately for us, he chose the piano. By the age of 6, Bobby was known as a prodigy. By age 8, Bobby was playing Mozart.
He inherited his gift for music from his father who was a very fine blues and gospel singer. At age 8, West moved to South Central Los Angeles during the Great Migration and grew up inspired by the jazz legacy of Central Avenue, and the city’s piano professors from Hampton Hawes to his mentor Horace Tapscott.
He returned to Louisiana and earned a degree from HBCU Grambling State University, and from the seventies, he split his time between L.A.- especially that vivid venue known as The World Stage in Leimert Park - and many ports of call in Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
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