... instrument. For the next five years they shared the same piano teacher, learning basic keyboard and reading techniques. Classically trained on piano; he also studied flute and violin as a child. In a later testimony, Booklet notes The Fantasy Recordings (Fantasy 1989); he stated, "I worked on Bach, Haydn, Beethoven, Dvorak, and Mozart, for three hours a day." In the start of his playing of the piano ... in October 1950, "because I received my selective-service physical examination notice last week, and it looks like I will leave Herbie Fields and go with Uncle Sam for a while" (CD inser...

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