Tommy Flanagan, American pianist and composer (born 1930)

Tommy Flanagan (musician)

American jazz pianist (1930–2001)

Thomas Lee Flanagan was an American jazz pianist and composer. He grew up in Detroit, initially influenced by such pianists as Art Tatum, Teddy Wilson, and Nat King Cole, and then by bebop musicians. Within months of moving to New York in 1956, he had recorded with Miles Davis…