King, et al) and this experience formed a powerful musical and personal confirmation that the blues and New Orleans funk music were to remain a driving influence throughout his life. He also got to set up stage and meet many other blues greats, (Bukka White, Snooks Eaglin, B.B.
During these times he received impromptu guidance and some informal lessons from piano greats Professor Longhair and Roosevelt Sykes. During that same time, he and his friend Barney Kilpatrick began working at the New Orleans Jazz Festival where he was a stage hand. He began composing when he was 17 and won a composition contest for a serial composition using an isorhythm derived from a Billy Cobham song bass line. In high school he taught himself blues and boogie-woogie piano and built a synthesizer from parts.
His mother and father were amateur musicians who played the popular music of the 40's and 50's for fun.
Jeffrey Harrington was born in 1955 in Forest, Mississippi.
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