Aaron Bridgers
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Bridgers grew up in Winston-Salem, North Carolina where he learned to play piano[2][3] and where he met Duke Ellington. Bridgers had moved to New York City, working side jobs and continuing to study piano when Ellington introduced him to Billy Strayhorn. Soon after Bridgers and Strayhorn moved in together becoming lovers from 1939 until Bridgers's move to France in 1947.[4][5]
Bridgers is featured in the Paul Newman film Paris Blues (1961).
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- *See Jazz in Paris with Aaron Bridgers and Art Simmons in The Living Room
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- 1918 births
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- American jazz pianists
- American male jazz pianists
- African-American LGBTQ people
- American gay musicians
- 20th-century American pianists
- LGBTQ people from North Carolina
- 20th-century American male musicians
- 20th-century American LGBTQ people
- 21st-century American LGBTQ people
- 20th-century African-American musicians