Terry, and Bobby Vinton. In 1967 he released an album on Decca Records, How Insensitive, with a studio group called Brasilia Nueve. This group included some of the players from the Porgy and Bess session (Markowitz, Sims), as well as Tito Puente, Chino Pozo, Mel Lewis, Barry Galbraith, and Louie Ramirez. He taught music theory at Montgomery College from 1974 to 1990 and was the leader of the student jazz band. He also led a big band for occasional performances at Washington's Blues Alley nightclub in the 1980s. He retired to Fort Lauderdale in 1995, and died of cardiac arrest in 2005. Discography The Jazz Soul of Porgy and Bess (United Artists, 1959) Bye Bye Birdie (Colpix, 1963) 555 Feet High (Jazz Crusade, 1988) As sideman/arranger With Freddy Merkle Jazz Under the Dome (RCA Victor, 1957) With Lester Young Lester Young In Washington, D.C. 1956, Vols. 1-6 (Pablo, 1999) With Brasilia Nueve How Insensitive (Decca, 1967) References 1928 births 2005 deaths American jazz pianists American male pianists 20th-century American pianists People from Arlington County, Virginia American jazz composers American male jazz composers 20th-century American composers Jazz musicians from Virginia 20th-century American male musicians 20th-century jazz composers