Eddie Bonnemère

Eddie Bonnemère
Born(1921-02-15)February 15, 1921
Harlem
DiedMarch 19, 1996(1996-03-19) (aged 75)
New York City
GenresJazz
InstrumentPiano
LabelsRoost Records, Fortress
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Edward Valentine Bonnemère (February 15, 1921 – March 19, 1996) was an African-American jazz pianist as well as a Catholic church musician, composer and a public school teacher. His "Missa Hodierna" became in 1966 the first Jazz Mass ever used in a Catholic church in the United States.

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