[1] After studying at the same school for the blind as George Shearing, he recorded with Victor Feldman in the late 1940s and also with the Carlo Krahmer Band at the Paris Jazz Fair in 1949.
[1] From 1962 to 1972, he lived and worked in the US at Hickory House, a well-known jazz club (started up in 1933) at 52nd Street, Manhattan, New York.
[3] He had a lifelong smoking habit which caused him to develop emphysema, which contributed to his early death in London in November 1986, at the age of 61.
Just round the corner from the store was the Warren Buckley pub and beneath was a jazz cellar where Eddie (with dog under the piano) played during the evening with two local musicians making up the trio.
One notable evening touring American greats, Al Grey and Buddy Tate who was deputising for Jimmy Forrest, played a memorable session with Eddie's trio.