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Born here · 1927–1998
The town's one artist of national record is a composer, and his instrument was the classroom as much as the keyboard. Dick Grove's full entry stands in the famous-people file; his artist's record is this: a working jazz pianist and arranger (Alvino Rey, Paul Horn, Buddy Rich, Nancy Wilson) who became one of the century's named teachers of the craft — founder of the Dick Grove School of Music in Los Angeles in 1973 and of its successor, the Grove School Without Walls, after 1991 — and an author in his own right, of instructional books on musicianship, jazz harmony, ear training, and composing and arranging that carried the school's method into print. The town that produced him had no music institution to form him; he has said, in Leonard Feather's 1960 notes, that he "didn't study until I got out of high school." The forming was his own, and the record prints it that way.