Margaret Johnson (pianist)
Jazz pianist who substituted for Count Basie and Mary Lou Williams.
Margaret Johnson was a jazz pianist active in the 1930s who accompanied many prominent musicians of the era. A child prodigy, she formed her own group at age fifteen and later substituted for Count Basie and Mary Lou Williams. Her style was compared to Basie, Earl Hines, and Mary Lou Williams.
Quick Facts
- Full name
- Margaret Lucille Johnson
- Born
- September 28, 1918, Chanute, Kansas
- Died
- July 6, 1939
- Cause of death
- tuberculosis
- Nicknames
- Countess, Queenie
- High school
- Sumner High School (graduated 1935)
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