Artist: Kenny Drew

Kenneth Sidney "Kenny" Drew was an American-Danish jazz pianist. 

Drew was born in New York City, United States, and received piano lessons from the age of five. He attended the High School of Music & Art in Manhattan.

Drew's first recording, in 1950, was with Howard McGhee, and over the next two years he worked in bands led by Buddy DeFranco, Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, and Charlie Parker, among others. After a brief period with his own trio in California, Drew returned to New York, playing with Dinah Washington, Johnny Griffin, Buddy Rich, and several others over the following few years. He led many recording sessions throughout the 1950s, and in 1957 appeared on John Coltrane's album, Blue Train. 

Drew was one of the American jazz musicians who settled in Europe around this period: he moved to Paris in 1961 and to Copenhagen three years later.  While he sacrificed much of the interest of the American jazz audience, he gained a wide following across Europe.