Effective period / Period of releases: 1956 - 1992

American jazz pianist.
Born : August 16, 1928 in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Died : March 17, 1958 in Los Angeles, California.

During his short career (he died at the age of 29 years from a drug overdose), Carl Perkins played with Curtis Counce, Harold Land, Jack Sheldon, Oscar Moore, Frank Butler, Clifford Brown, Max Roach, Frank Morgan, Chet Baker, Dizzy Gillespie, and Dexter Gordon, among others. His only album as a leader, "Introducing Carl Perkins," was released in 1956.