Biography Trudy Pitts

Trudy Pitts (born 1932) was a soul jazz keyboardist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was known primarily for her skill with the Hammond B3 organ.

She is married to Bill Carney (born 1925), known to most as Mr. 'C'. He often joins her on the drums.

In 1999, the Prestige label remastered a couple of her discs from the 1960s into a single compact disc, Legends of Acid Jazz, Trudy Pitts & Pat Martino. She also accompanies Pat Martino on the Prestige Rudy Van Gelder re-issue El Hombre.

On September 15, 2006 Ms. Pitts was the first jazz artist play a concert on Philadelphia's Kimmel Center's 7,000 pipe organ, "taking the medium to a whole new level".

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