Word: pianist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Night Session (Hampton Hawes Quartet; Contemporary, 3 LPs) seems designed to prove Composer Babbitt wrong, and to show once again that real jazz must be improvised. Pianist Hawes, Guitarist Jim Hall, Bass Player Red Mitchell and Drummer Bruz Freeman turned up at the studio one night and piled into Jordu and Groovin' High, and from there on "we just played because we love to play." The result is one of the few genuine jam sessions on LPs. The quartet offers some effervescent readings of blues and ballads, including four numbers composed on the spot by Pianist Hawes. For listeners...
...Lion Roars (Willie "The Lion" Smith; Dot). In an interview with Critic Leonard Feather, Harlem's most-storied stride pianist rambles through some richly colored reminiscences about the good, bold days of jazz. (Willie's earliest jazz school: the brickyards of Haverstraw, N.Y.). The Lion roars too much and plays too little, but a couple of his own compositions-Echo of Spring, with its lacy embroidery over a rolling bass, and Zig-Zag, with its propulsive drive-are worth the price of the album...
...Paul Hindemith to be given Monday evening, August 4, at 8:30 p.m., in Paine Hall. The concert, open to the public without charge, will also include Eleftherios Eleftherakis and Joseph Pietropaolo, violists; Michael Senturia '58, oboist; Mary F. Johnson and Judith Davidoff, cellists, and Norma Bertolami Sapp, pianist...
Some of the finest solo talents in the U.S. turned up for one-night stands: Singers George London, Blanche Thebom, Leontyne Price, Robert McFerrin, Pianist Byron Janis, Violinist Yehudi Menuhin. Still to come are Pianist Leon Fleisher, Harpsichordist Ralph Kirkpatrick, Singers William Warfield, Eleanor Steber, Harry Belafonte. The world premiere of Gian Carlo Menotti's opera Maria Golovin will take place in Brussels, and some performers from the Newport Jazz Festival will appear. The most cherished scheme of U.S. Performing Arts Coordinator Jean Dalrymple: to find a well-heeled angel who will underwrite a live run of Pajama Game...
...Every year they travel thousands of miles by train, bus, and paddle steamer to play in some 80 of the rachitic towns along the coasts and in the Australian outback. In addition, the Broadcasting Commission has sponsored bush tours by such world-famed soloists as Violinist Isaac Stern and Pianist Eugene Istomin...