Herman Chittison

October 1946, photographed by William P. Gottlieb
Herman "Ivory" Chittison (October 15, 1908 – March 8, 1967) was an American jazz pianist.
Born in Flemingsburg, Kentucky, he began his career in 1928 as a member of Zack Whyte's territory band in Ohio. Chittison moved to New York in the early 1930s and found work as an accompanist to Ethel Waters, Adelaide Hall, and Clarence Williams. He also visited Boston for the first time with a traveling... meer