Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "David "Fathead" Newman" in English language version.
Newman was born in Corsicana, Texas, on Feb. 24, 1933, but grew up in Dallas, where he studied first the piano and then the saxophone. He earned the nickname 'Fathead' from his high school band teacher because he stubbornly refused to learn to read music, preferring instead to take it in by ear. He went off to Jarvis Christian College on a music and theology scholarship but quit school after three years and began playing professionally, mostly jazz and blues, with a number of musicians, including Buster Smith, Lloyd Glenn, Lowell Fulson and T-Bone Walker.
