Don Abney(1923-2000)
- Actor
Jazz pianist, accompanist to Ella Fitzgerald, Carmen McRae, Thelma
Carpenter, and the Billy Williams Quartet. He studied music privately
in Baltimore, and later at the Manhattan School of Music. While serving
in the US Army Band, he played French horn, and later performed with
the orchestras of Bubby Johnson, Eddie Gibbs, Snub Mosely, Wilbur De
Paris, Chuck Wayne, the Bill Harris-Kai Winding combo, Sy Oliver, and
Louie Bellson.