Word: pianist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...civilized dinner with dear old friends. And, as always, the banquet was just about to start. Striding onstage to his Steinway, he turned to his devoted audience at Manhattan's Philharmonic Hall with the suave little bow that he has made on more stages than any other pianist in history. Then Artur Rubinstein addressed himself to the feast: both of the Brahms concertos, either one of which is more than a good night's labor. But his strength and sureness only grew as he played on. Seeing him there, hearing the majestic ring of his music...
BORN TO BE BLUE!: BOBBY TIMMONS TRIO (Riverside). Pianist Timmons has an unfailing ear for the sound of sorrow, but he colors his reports from the blue world with musical wizardry and many shades of feeling. With the understanding accompaniment of Ron Carter and the great Sam Jones on bass and Connie Kay on drums, Timmons here runs through such dark delights as Malice Towards None, Namely You and Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child, and the result is a fascinating blues album full of bemusement and cool laughter...
...HEART SINGS!: BILL EVANS TRIO (Riverside). Pianist Evans is the most decorous musician in jazz, but his rococo style never obscures his musical intent: to force the birth of a mood, however painful, whenever he plays. Here, in eight tunes recorded nearly two years ago, Evans swings with an energy he has recently lost, and the album that results is a souvenir of better days...
...WORLD OF HENRY ORIENT spins hilariously around Tippy Walker and Merrie Spaeth, who commit grand larceny in their scene-stealing debut as a pair of overprivileged Manhattan teen-agers with a yen for Concert Pianist Peter Sellers...
MOZART: PIANO CONCERTOS NOS. 19 AND 20 (Columbia). The rapport between Pianist Rudolf Serkin and Conductor George Szell dates back to their childhood in Vienna, but seldom have they made more of it than in this nonpareil performance of Mozart in his gayest (19) and blackest (20) moods...