Raining here. The finest part of yesterday, even with all the feasting, even with the caramel pumpkin pie, was sitting cross-legged on the bed with Gabriel listening to a mix of Oscar Peterson, Ella Fitzgerald and Bill Evans. He decided on the setting, first choosing his bed, then Robin's and my bed, then Sam's. He cleared the pillows from each one, an impulse he has to complete whenever he gets on...
The legacy of pianist {{Bill Evans = 6592}} has become so predominant among emerging pianists that it is refreshing to hear someone who shuns the late pianist's lyrical introversion in favor of a more outgoing and playful approach. This is certainly the case with Swedish pianist Magnus Hjorth, whose second album in his own name, Old New Borrowed Blue, shows an encyclopedic knowledge of jazz history,...
If you were to spend just a bit of time poking around geofflapp.com, you might think that the Montreal pianist was one of these 20-something musicians who is new to the scene but has plenty of Web mojo. His site links to his Facebook and Twitter accounts and indeed, via song.ly, he tried this year to promote Canadian jazz by directing people to hosted MP3s by Canadian jazz musicians. At his site, Lapp...
Albert Ayler - Greenich Village (Universal Japan/Zoom ) Amanda Martinez - Amor (Phantom ) Anita O'Day - Sings Winners (Universal ) Anita Spring - Let Them Talk (Phantom ) Art Blakey - Jazz Message (Universal ) Art Sherrod Jr. - Seasons (Pacific Coast Jazz ) Benny Carter - Further Definitions (Universal Japan/Zoom ) Bernie McGann - Solar (Indies Aus/Zoom ) Bill Evans - With Symphony Orchestra (Universal...
Thelonious Monk The Life and Times of an American Original Robin D. G. Kelley (Simon and Schuster; 588 pages; $30) In Michael Ondaatje's wonderful novel "Divisadero," the jazz of Thelonious Monk is likened to "imprisoned birdsongs." Leave it to a superb...
MAXJAZZ's ongoing Piano Series has featured some very heavy hitters in the keyboard arena: {{Mulgrew Miller = 9406}}, {{Geoffrey Keezer = 8293}}, {{Eric Reed = 10611}}, {{Denny Zeitlin = 2901}} and the inimitable {{Jessica Williams = 11391}}. Add Jeb Patton to the group, a young piano man that holds his own in marvelous company with the release of New Strides...
The Death of the Cool By Robert McHenry Cool was once associated with reticence, savoir-faire, and irony, none of which is much practiced or regarded these days. Whether or not it is true that you can’t go home again, as Thomas Wolfe claimed—and the claim is just a special case of the more general observation of Heraclitus that you cannot step into the same river twice—it seems that...
Two discs feature the artists' greatest love songs, just in time for Christmas,New Year's Eve, and Valentine's Day! LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Concord Music Group's For Lovers series will continue on December 22, 2009 with CDs from both Ray Charles and Isaac Hayes, featuring each artist's greatest love songs. Previously, Concord has issued For Lovers albums by Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Tony Bennett,...
By: Ron Hart Toward the end of his life, pianist Bill Evans' image was the exact opposite of the button-down, bespectacled young square who first burst onto the jazz scene in 1956 as the rising young lion on the jazz circuit who landed into history as the piano player for Miles Davis' 1958 masterwork Kind of Blue. Rocking a gentleman's mullet, full beard and wire-frame glasses with the tint, Evans...
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Miles Davis: The Complete Columbia Album Collection, a deluxe CD/DVD box set, contains every album released by the jazz master on Columbia Records. This limited edition retrospective of 70 CDs and one DVD will be released on November 24.
p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- This Tuesday, I met Pete Seeger. Well, I didn’t actually meet him — he’s in New York and I’m in BC, Canada — but thanks to Bill Hudson, a friend of mine who knows him, Pete and I had a long, thoroughly enjoyable (for me, at least [...]
Two of the compositions introduced on 'Brubeck plays Brubeck' are now recognized as jazz standards: They have been recorded and performed many times by many different artists, most notably by Miles Davis with Gil Evans' orchestral arrangements and by Bill Evans solo piano . My publisher has informed me that at last count there were over 60 different versions of 'In Your Own Sweet Way' recorded by various...
Bill Evans Piano and Orchestra Theme Form the V.I.P.S >>>> Download Theme Form the V.I.P.S <<<< artist: Bill Evans Piano and Orchestra album: Theme Form the V.I.P.S Tracklist: 1 Theme from Mr. Novak mp3 2 The Caretakers Theme mp3 3 Bill Evans Piano and Orchestra mp3 4 Walk on the Wild Side mp3 5 The Days of Wine and Roses mp3 6 Theme from the V. I. P. S mp3 7 Hollywood mp3 8 Sweet September mp3 9 On...