Art Gillham

Known as the "whispering pianist," Art Gillham began cutting records in the early '20s and kept working steadily until the mid-'50s. The resulting accumulation of accomplishments, published recordings, and sheet music is a mountainous stack indeed; whispering might be in order just to keep the whole thing from burying the listener alive. Gillham seems to have invented the idea of "mass exposure" long before performers thought such a thing was necessary, appearing on some 300 different radio stations in the days when there was no such thing as a national network broadcast, incl...