Lionel Grigson, English pianist, composer, and educator (born 1942)

Lionel Grigson

English jazz musician and educator (1942–1994)

Lionel Grigson was an English jazz pianist, cornettist, trumpeter, composer, writer and teacher, who in the 1980s started the jazz course at the Guildhall School of Music. As Simon Purcell wrote in The Independent, "Whether he inspired or inflamed, Grigson's energies often acted…