(1892-1972)美国作曲家,自幼从父学中提琴,从母亲学钢琴、小提琴与和声。因家境贫寒,少时曾当过报童、司机和书籍装订工人。十七岁入洛杉矶交响乐团任中提琴手。二十八岁起在惠特曼领导的爵士乐团里当钢琴演奏员并从事乐 (1892-1972) American composer, childhood viola from father and son, piano, violin and harmony from mother. Because of his poor family, he worked as a newspaper boy, driver and bookbinder in a few days. Seventeen years old into the Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra fist. Twenty-year-old was a pianist and entertained in Whitman’s jazz band