On This Date (July 13, 2008) Gerald Wiggins / Played with Louis Armstrong
Posted by themusicsover.com on July 13, 2009
Gerald Wiggins
May 12, 1922 – July 13, 2008
Gerald Wiggins was a much respected classically trained jazz pianist who, over the course of his long career accompanied the likes of Louis Armstrong, Benny Carter, Lena Horne, Lou Rawls, Nat King Cole, and Eartha Kitt. Television junkies may remember him for his cameos on 227 and Moesha. Wiggins passed away at a Los Angeles hospital at the age of 86.
