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A fine pianist influenced by <a href="spotify:artist:6zkX5fhrSD4tdVOmimR9wB">Oscar Peterson</a>, Johnny O'Neal actually started his career playing gospel piano in church while a teenager. Inspired by <a href="spotify:artist:6zkX5fhrSD4tdVOmimR9wB">Peterson</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:3DtSOCXYU6o4EV0K1NgIKq">Art Tatum</a>, and <a href="spotify:artist:570vCzcespB48HIQyTbDO6">Bud Powell</a>, O'Neal started exploring jazz in 1976 and after impressing <a href="spotify:artist:0SvD7DL5CQTbcrMtns1US8">Ray Brown</a>, found his way into Milt Jackson's group. Other important jobs followed (with <a href="spotify:artist:217b0uqAzsOOhGcnoANZqj">Sonny Stitt</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:0gNn3uUyIEErdQthThI51i">Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis</a>, and <a href="spotify:artist:4PGmuM1NRpb2AynvthlC6y">Buddy DeFranco</a>), and in 1982, O'Neal moved to New York and soon recorded his debut with Concord. After playing regularly with <a href="spotify:artist:62xdwGEOLoGQxKUqoJusyU">Clark Terry</a>, he was a member of <a href="spotify:artist:6ykfXAed2KOLOMI3R0TZdz">Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers</a> (1982-1983) and has mostly led his own groups ever since. Johnny O'Neal has recorded as a leader for Concord, Parkwood, and Justin Time (1995), taking three effective vocals on the latter set. ~ Scott Yanow, Rovi
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