Al Neil's lyrics & chords

Al Neil was born in 1924 in Vancouver. Classically trained from the age of nine, he began to give recitals in his teens and was looking at a concert career when World War II forced him to cross the Atlantic. Back home in 1945, he resumed his piano studies with Glenn Nelson and Jean Couthard. Wilf Wylie taught him his first rudiments of jazz and off Neil went to play clubs, leaving the classical repertoire behind. In 1956 he helped open The Cellar where he performed as a house musician, accompanying for the next few years an impressive number of...read more