Word: pianist
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...fact: Mr. Kane is also lifelong singer and pianist...
Instead, judges sought fresh acts that would excite the crowd—even debating whether they would have room for more than one male singing pianist. “Wait, do we already have a heartthrob?” said Gary L. Pelissier Jr. ’11, the other co-coordinator of Freshman Week. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...were sheet music," explains 24-year-old Sam Ascher-Weiss, whose cover of Davis' "All Blues" appears on Kind of Bloop. "You see what it sounds like, mess around with it, and try it again." Ascher-Weiss is a chiptune anomaly: he is a jazz pianist and working musician in New York City. For Kind of Bloop, he recorded himself playing "All Blues" on the piano. Then he listened to the recording and figured out how to program it on the computer. The process was very laborious. "You're making music with outdated computers. You need a masochistic desire...
...Eckstine's band. He had all the great players - Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, anyone you can mention probably went through that band. The drummer was Art Blakey. When I was still at home and 18 years old, I had the opportunity to play with Billie Holiday. She had a pianist who was going to college in Washington, and he formed a little quartet when she came to town...
...bustling Chicago music scene, there was so much more to hear and play. In the morning he was hillbilly, and at night he was playing jazz with Roy Eldridge, Coleman Hawkins, Nat Cole and Art Tatum. He cut his first records in 1936, backing blues singer-pianist Georgia White as she belted out Andy Razaf's raunchy threat, "If I can't sell it, I'll keep sittin' on it, before I give it away." A year later, he formed his first trio, with bass player Ernie Newton and rhythm guitarist Jim Atkins (the elder half brother of Chet Atkins...