I swiped this from Best American's blog (by David Lehman): It’s Johnny Mercer’s birthday from Natchez to Mobile in the cool cool cool of the evening very cool with Barbara Lea singing Marian McPartland playing the greatest revenge songs of all time hooray and hallelujah you had it comin’ to ya and a bottle of Rodenbach Alexander red ale from Belgium with cherries and “Tangerine”...
The fog has lifted off of the coast of Seattle with the rise of Origin Records. As the fisherman of jazz today, they've cast their nets and pulled in a catch of fresh, raw and bold talent. Their latest catch: saxophonist Ricky Sweum. Pulling Your Own Strings, which came out in mid-August 2009, has received some of the highest accolades from today's best musicians including {{Dave Liebman = 8748}} who...
It is not often that a woman is given much elbowroom in contemporary music, no matter how good she may be. However, when she is as good as Min Rager on First Steps, more than elbowroom had better be made for her and her piano. True, Rager has been preceded by a celestial pantheon of female pianists, including towering personalities {{Mary Lou Williams = 11401}} and {{Marian McPartland, = 9297}}, the...
Pianist Marian McPartland never assumed a hipster or cool mystique like many of her male jazz peers. Throughout her 70-year career, there was no brooding, no puzzling behavior, and no legendary binges or tantrums. Just a good-girl smile as wide as Piccadilly Circus and knowing eyes that bore a steely determination to stand out with graceful technique and an encyclopedic knowledge of jazz. Like Billy...
Marian McPartland is probably best known today as a pioneering jazz radio host (NPR's Piano Jazz) and the grande dame of the jazz piano. But starting back in the 1950s, Marian was one of bebop's most graceful and nimble messengers. Equally well versed in Dixieland, stride and other forms of early jazz that she grew up with in pre-war England, McPartland had one of the tenderest touches of the period...
As you may recall from parts 1 and 2, our theme in this series is that by concentrating on the lines played by a good string bassist, you can gain an understanding of the shape and structure of a piece...
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FEINSTEIN'S AT LOEWS REGENCY will introduce a new feature for their Fall 2009 season: "After Hours." JOHN PROULX, the Grammy Award winning singer, pianist and composer, will kick off this exciting news series with a special after hours performance Sunday, October 18 at 10:00PM. JOHN PROULX just released his new CD Bakers Dozen: Remembering Chet Baker, which offers a fresh take on a number...
Eldar, the talented (and so damn young) pianist who has made popular appearances here at the Rochester International Jazz Festival in past years will be coming to town on Friday, September 25th, when The Eldar Djangirov Trio kicks off the...
The Guardian's book blog and the Los Angeles Times remember author Dominick Dunne. At Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz, Allen Toussaint and Elvis Costello share a live performance and interview. Gapers Block looks back on the 1990's music scene of Chicago....
GreatnessIs JustThatVille The great Mr. Paul passed away on Thursday at the age of 94. Here he is talking, playing and inspiring, with the equally inspirational, not to mention great, Marian McPartland back in 1999. It's a full hour of absolute fabulousness and living so easily in the gorgeous Summertime. And it all starts in my favorite key. A-minor. OK? .
Click Here for live session and interview on Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz courtesy of npr radio. 57 minutes of music and chat with Les and Marian. Lance.
17-Year Saxophone Prodigy Grace Kelly To Perform at Scullers on August 27 in Support of Mood Changes Voted "Best Jazz Act in Boston" For The Second Consecutive Year in The Boston Phoenix's 2009 Best Music Poll...
Seventy years after Django Reinhardt's Quintette du Hot Club de France fused Gypsy guitar with the jazz of the day, a new "Hot Club" has emerged in the Motor City. The Hot Club of Detroit puts a modern spin on the Gypsy-jazz tradition, with Evan Perri on lead guitar, Julien Labro on accordion, Carl Cafagna on soprano and tenor sax, Paul Brady on rhythm guitar and Andrew Kratzat on bass...
Bobby Short often called himself a "saloon singer," but the world will remember him as one of the greatest cabaret performers of the 20th century. Piano Jazz continues its 30th-anniversary celebration with an encore broadcast from the very first season of the show. This session showcases Short's powerful vocals, his "two-fisted" piano playing and his infectious warmth...
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