Ostransky biography
Ostransky biography
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Leroy Ostransky
American musician and writer on music history
Leroy Ostransky (January 17, 1918 – October 11, 1993) was an American composer, music educator, and writer of books on jazz.
Early life
Ostransky grew up in a Jewish ghetto on the Lower East Side in New York city, the son of Russian Jewish immigrant parents, Max Ostransky and Sophie Ostransky (née Friedman). Ostransky's father, a saloon owner during prohibition known to the neighborhood as "Sharkey", had greater aspirations of success for his son Leroy as a violinist.
Leroy ostransky biography
Ostransky's memoir details his difficult relationship with his father, who could be both physically and emotionally manipulative and even abusive.[1]
Musical career
After leaving home at seventeen, Ostransky worked as a pianist in a jazz club before receiving his doctorate in musical arts at the State University of Iowa in 1959.
He went on to found the Workshop Band, one of America's early experimental jazz bands. In addition to hi