Arts Spectrum - OFA The eminent pianist Hank Jones will be honored by the Office for the Arts In homage to Jones, his longtime collaborator Joe Lovano will also appear. http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~spectrum/past_spectrums/2005/spring05/hank_joe.htm
Extractions: The New York Times, Boston Globe, and New Yorker each cited as one of the best ten jazz albums of 2004. The Hank Jones residency at Harvard is made possible with the support of the Richard J. Scheuer, Jr. Fund and the Office of the President, Harvard University. Concert tickets are available at the Harvard Box Office by calling 617.496.2222 or on the web at www.fas.harvard.edu/ tickets. In his first visit to Harvard, Jones will meet with members of the Harvard and Boston-area jazz communities, and participate in a Learning from Performers Program event on April 8. Hank Jones is a giant in jazz. The Boston Globe Down Beat magazine. Lovano joined the Paul Motian band in 1981 and has worked with John Scofield, Herbie Hancock, Elvin Jones, Hank Jones, Charlie Haden, Carla Bley, Bobby Hutcherson, Billy Higgins, Dave Holland, Ed Blackwell, Michel Petrucciani, Lee Konitz, Abbey Lincoln, Tom Harrell, McCoy Tyner, Jim Hall, Bob Brookmeyer and many more. For more information about the Jazz Program, please contact Director of Bands Tom Everett (617.496.BAND or everett@fas.harvard.edu) or OFA Director of Programs Cathy McCormick (617.495.8676 or Cathleen_McCormick@harvard.edu).
BEHINDtheBEAT Artists The Single Petal of a Rose pianist Marian McPartland relates the origin of Shipp and Parker - Shipp explores the impetus behind his decade-long http://www.behindthebeat.net/genre.asp?g=79&ar=56
Educational CyberPlayGround: Personal Message From Joe Hunter Joe Hunter was Motown Records first pianist, preceding both Johnny He wasborn joseph E. Hunter on November 19, 1927, to the union of Vada Idona Hunter http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Culdesac/Stars/funkbroJoeHunter.html
Joe Turner with a band led by Turner s longstanding counterpart, pianist Pete Johnson,and featuring the blazing solos of sax man Maxwell Davis. http://www.arhoolie.com/titles/333.shtml
Extractions: REVIEWS In later years, sessions like these without nearly as much finesse would be called Rhythm and Blues, would gain a considerable amount of popularity and ultimately give birth to the ugly offspring of music known as Rock and Roll. The collection at hand could be termed Blues and Swing, because all of the rhythm sections here play strongly but swingingly, avoiding the bludgeon-like lack of subtlety that would pervade the idiom later on. Pete Johnson's "orchestra," as it is billed here, consists of six musicians, including no brass but featuring two or three saxophonists backing the vocals with grace and flow, never honking or bleating. Joe Turner would remain a consistently strong blues performer throughout most of his long career, but during the sessions contained on this album he received some of the most sympathetic accompaniment he would get on record, at least until he was rediscovered by jazzers and young bluesmen nearly 20 years later. A large part of that musical sympathy comes in the pianistic presence of Pete Johnson.
Joe Sample - Verve Records For more than four decades, pianist and composer Joe Sample has been an integral For Sample, the album is something of a long overdue tribute to a chief http://vervemusicgroup.com/artist.aspx?aid=2691
Todd Matthews ++ Freelance Journalist Seattle pianist Dave Peck has teamed up with longtime collaborators JeffJohnson (bass) and Joe La Barbera (drums) to record the new album Good Road. http://www.wahmee.com/peck.html
Extractions: F or pianist Dave Peck, the biggest musical treasures can be found in ballads. This was made crystal clear during a visit to Peck's North Seattle home and studio last month, where we listened to songs from his new recording, Good Road (Let's Play Stella Records), shortly before its release. Halfway through the sixth track "The Star Crossed Lovers" by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn, one of several ballads on the new album I mentioned to Peck that he seemed naturally drawn to the slower tunes. Peck agreed. "It's my temperament, I guess," he explained. "I like to look at pretty things. The ballads seem to hold the most interest for me. I keep trying to find new, interesting and obscure up-tempo tunes, but it's hard. I could just go ahead and play the up-tempo standards everybody knows and try to do something different with them. But I can always find a gorgeous ballad that hasn't been played much." Seattle pianist Dave Peck has teamed up with long-time collaborators Jeff Johnson (bass) and Joe La Barbera (drums) to record the new album Good Road . "They're very comfortable and easy to play with," says Peck. "They have huge ears and great sensitivity to the kinds of things I like to do. I kind of like the idea that I don't really know what will happen. I don't really know what the music is going to sound like which is kind of a nice thing. It just depends upon what the three of us are thinking that day."
Performers At The Peterborough Folk Festival trained mezzo soprano and pianist Karla Ferguson on accordion, vocals and piano, Joe s legendary band The Continental Drift included his long time http://www.peterboroughfolkfestival.org/04_archive/performers04.htm
Extractions: A u g u s t The das macht SHOW! includes "satirist and globetrotting beatnik" Murray D. Evans on guitar, harmonica and lead vocals, classically trained mezzo soprano and pianist Karla Ferguson on accordion, vocals and piano, bassist and Humber College Jazz Studies student Gord Mowat, the musical "Jekyll and Hyde" Corey Ticknor on mandolin and vocals, and tenor saxophonist/arts administrator/graduate student/Basque sous-chef Sean McManus on clarinet, percussion and vocals. www.dasmachtshow.ca
Liner Notes Joe was encouraged to play, as long as he kept it sacred. Guitarist Big EdThompson, pianist Pigmeat Jarrett and singer/instrumentalist Albert http://yellowdogrecords.com/bigjoeduskin/bjd_liner_notes.html
Extractions: Recommend this CD to a friend Reviews Liner Notes Press Kit Contact âThey had a piano in every house, every beer garden here. You could hear music all over Cincinnati back then.â âBig Joe Duskin Cincinnati may not be as famous a âHome of the Bluesâ as Memphis, Chicago and St. Louis, but the blues tradition in this Southwest Ohio city goes back to the musicâs beginnings early in the 20 th Century. Like its better-known sister rivertowns, Cincinnati is a gateway city, auspiciously located at the crossroads of Americaâs North and South, East and West, a place where Southern migrants and European immigrants flocked for good-paying jobs in the factories, railroads and on the busy Ohio riverfront. Cincinnati became a business and transportation center in the mid-19 th Century, when the steamboats ruled the inland waterways. Railroads later kept the Queen City of the West on the move. One thing shared by Cincinnatiâs hard-working citizens, whether they be German-Catholic, African-American or Southern-Appalachian, was a love of good times, usually accompanied by good beers. Along with commercial goods, the river and the railroads kept musicians moving through town. When the radio industry boomed in the 1920s-1940s, Cincinnatiâs 500,000-watt WLW became âThe Nationâs Station,â with a staff that included Fats Waller, Merle Travis, Chet Atkins, Andy Williams, the Mills Brothers and homegrown divas Rosemary Clooney and Doris Day.
Kenny Werner Biography: MarsJazz Booking Agency Bob Blumenthal of the Boston Globe, a long time supporter of the trio said, He has also served as pianist, arranger and musical director for the noted http://www.marsjazz.com/kennywbiocurrent.html
Extractions: KENNY WERNER was born November 19, 1951, in Brooklyn, and his introduction to music and performing came at the age of four when he joined a children's song and dance group. At the age of eleven, he recorded a single with a fifteen-piece orchestra and appeared on television playing stride piano. His love of the classics was nurtured when, while still in high school, he attended the Manhattan School of Music, where he became a concert piano major upon completion of his high school studies. Werner's emotional need to improvise began to take him out of the classical world, and into the world of jazz. So, in 1970, he transferred to the Berklee School of Music. There he began to find his creative direction. In Boston he met his piano teacher and spiritual guide, Madame Chaloff. "She was the first person I met who pulled together spiritual and musical aspects," recalls Werner. She ignited in him a concept that was furthered by his next teacher, Juao Assis Brasil, a concert pianist who successfully demonstrated to Werner effortless piano playing with a self-loving attitude. Werner met Mr. Brasil while touring South America with Juao's twin brother, Victor Assis Brasil. This ideology blossomed in Werner and constitutes his approach to music and creativity today. In 1977, Werner recorded an LP that featured piano solos of the music of
1201 Music Presents Augustine, Joe - Jazzscapes 30+ years experience as pianist, composer and arranger to find just the rightblend of melody, 8. Rhapsody in Blue Paper Mill Artist joseph Raphael http://www.1201music.com/album.cfm?sku=60142
1201 Music Presents Augustine, Joe - License To Groove Their long, long lists of credits read like a Whos Who of modern jazz and Smooch, also penned by the pianist, features a nifty combination of swing http://www.1201music.com/album.cfm?sku=60112
[JPL] Conversation With Jazz Pianist Joe Gilman Conversation with jazz pianist, Joe Gilman Dick Crockett Joe Gilman talks aboutrecent events in his I wonder if that indicates a long productive life? http://lists.jazzweek.com/pipermail/jazzproglist/2004-July/000465.html
Northrivermusic Featured Artists joseph Rubenstein, piano/composer and others. a festivalin two concerts produced by composer/pianist joseph Rubenstein presents works http://www.gharts.org/NRM2005-06preview.html
Extractions: Program Description: YeraSon is dedicated to preserving and perpetuating Cuban music and rhythms in popular and classical genres. Performing original arrangements of works by composers such as Ernesto Lecuona, George Gershwin, Eliseo Grenet and others,the group utilizes an unusual combination of strings (Yrving Yeras and Lisa Crowder on violin, Alexander Fox on the Cuban tres guitar, and Jennifer Vincent on cello) and occasionally even integrates traditional Cuban percussion into its works. The quartet's unique timbre breathes new life into venerable 19th Century classical compositions in the habanera and danzon styles and also infuses contemporary popular music with a distinctly modern classical twist. Non-traditional tonalities and improvisational exploration lend the YeraSon Quartet its inimitable character and energy.
Music From Freek Creek - The Long Lost Supersession Album I was playing with a big long Island band at the time called the Vagrants featuringLeslie West The greatest bluesfunk organist/pianist I d ever heard. http://www.moogymusic.com/CDs/freecreek.html
Earshot Jazz Monthly Publication Archive Robin Holcomb (who is married to Horvitz) has long been in that arena, too.A singular singer and pianist with many recordings of her own, she was a natural http://www.earshot.org/zine-arch.asp?NewsLetterID=75
PK/Trio pianist Pandelis Karayorgis has worked with bassist Nate McBride and If youthought the jazz piano trio format had atrophied long ago, think again. http://karayorgis.com/trio.html
Extractions: Pianist Pandelis Karayorgis has worked with bassist Nate McBride and drummer Randy Peterson in various settings for the better part of a decade. In 1997 they came together to form the Pandelis Karayorgis Trio. Since then they have recorded two CDs: (Leo Lab ) in 1998 and Blood Ballad (Leo Records) in 2001. A new CD was just recorded in February 2005. Jazz Times lists Blood Ballad on its Critics' Picks 2001 list while the Boston Phoenix calls this trio one "of the best in the world" and lists Heart And Sack on its top-10 choices for 1998 saying: "Karayorgis combines Lennie Tristano's sense of linear propulsion with Paul Bley's conception of the piano trio as a free-flowing three-way conversation. That makes for a coiled, winding and unwinding sense of swing driven by Karayorgis's prickly lines and expansive harmonies, bassist Nate McBride's mix of gestural abstractions and deep-walking, and drummer Randy Peterson's ability to drop the downbeat anywhere, confounding expectations and drawing you into this band's remarkable pulse."
Liszt Franz English Franz, joseph Liszt was born in Raiding on 22 October 1811 and died in A s pianist, composer and personality, Franz Liszt strides across the whole of http://www.maurice-abravanel.com/liszt_franz_english.html
Extractions: Franz Joseph Liszt Influence Orchestral Music Piano Music Important Information: ... Chorale works and others F ranz, Joseph Liszt was born in Raiding on 22 October 1811 and died in Bayreuth on 31 July 1886. He was a Hungarian composer, pianist and conductor Liszt was an innovator in his piano and orchestral works, and created new approaches to form. A s pianist, composer and personality, Franz Liszt strides across the whole of the nineteenth century and is seminal in his influence on the twentieth. Although Liszt was born along with the first generation of romantic composers (Berlioz, Chopin, Schumann and Mendelssohn), he outlived them all to become a friend of Wagner and proponent of the "music of the future." A fter two years he was set to pursue his studies at the conservatory in Paris, but Cherubini, then the director of that institution, refused to admit him because he was a foreigner. His Father Adam then resorted to Ferdinando Paer to teach Franz composition. After a further private education he played at the houses of rich families and in 1824 he made his debut in London. He caused a sensation and soon played at Drury Lane and before George IV. Finally the Liszt's settled in Paris and the career of the young Franz progressed at a tremendous pace. In 1825 his one act opera Don Sanche was performed in Paris.
Village Voice > News > Field Of Drums By Andrew Friedman long Joe, named for how he towered over his drums, joined the group on maracas . With pianist Hector Rivera and percussionist Rudy Romero, http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0036,friedman,17905,1.html
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Joe Curry | What Others Are Saying I loaned the latest piano disc to my friend/pianist/piano tuner, The daysI telecommute, I can have piano music ALL day long if I choose. http://www.joecurry.com/shopping/musicthoughts.html
