Alan Warren Haig (19th July 1924–16th November 1982) was an American
jazz pianist, best known as one of the pioneers of
bebop. Haig was born in Newark, New Jersey. He started playing with
Dizzy Gillespie and
Charlie Parker in 1944, and performed and recorded under Gillespie from 1944 to 1946, as a member of
Eddie Davis and His Beboppers in 1946 (also featuring
Fats Navarro), and the Eddie Davis Quintet in 1947, under Parker from 1948 to 1950, and under
Stan Getz from 1949 to 1951. He was part of the celebrated nonet on the first session of
Miles Davis' Birth of the Cool. Althou…
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