JAN PRESTON began her career playing classical music. It was later in life, after hearing WINIFRED ATWELL playing the honky tonk piano music, boogie woogie and ragtime, that Jan taught herself to ...

Una Winifred Atwell was a prominent pianist ... Eventually, Atwell quit pharmacy for a career in music, uprooting her life and moving to New York to take up piano studies. From 1946 she studied ...

Image: She combined classical music with boogie-woogie and ragtime ... Songwriter and lyrist Sir Richard Stilgoe owns Winifred Atwell's 'other piano' - the one which she used for her honky-tonk ...

EVEN superstars like Elton John have an icon and his was Winifred Atwell. But just who was the ... At age three, he began playing the piano on his own, and shocked his family by playing by ear ...

He encouraged her to play ragtime music; she was so exceptional at it that after a 1948 concert at the London Casino, her star was on the rise, thanks as much to her warmth and style as to her ...

Winifred Atwell, born on Feb. 27 ... then would move to a "beat-up tacky upright" piano that she would play ragtime music on, Gerry said. "That was her schtick." 'It's been a rollercoaster ...

Winifred Atwell was the classically-trained pianist from Trinidad who became the first black artist to go to number one in the UK. Show more Winifred Atwell was a classically-trained pianist from ...

If the pharmacy industry had claimed her first, the world would have missed out on the incredible musical talent of Una Winifred Atwell ... had learnt to play the piano and became very popular ...

A black plaque honouring the late pianist Winifred Atwell has been unveiled at the former site of a hair salon she owned in south London. The sign was put up by the Nubian Jak Community Trust as ...

A black plaque honouring the late pianist Winifred Atwell has been unveiled at the former site of a hair salon she owned in south London. The sign was put up by the Nubian Jak Community Trust as part ...