Word: pianistics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Playing a club date one evening recently, Jazz Pianist Bill Evans slid unaccompanied into a fragilely twining song of his own composition titled Peace Piece. Afterwards, a teen-age fan rushed ecstatically up to the piano. "He told me," recalls Evans with a faintly puzzled frown, "that when he heard it he felt like he was standing all alone in New York...
Nicholas Bodine has come to Antibes and Juan-les-Pins to forget his wife, a philandering lady pianist. He is an American wanderer of European background, whose strongest characteristic is a persistent fretfulness and a concern for the color of clothes. What has maimed him, he thinks, is his frustrated passion for his bitch-wife, Liliane. But his strongest attachment is to a young, handsome male servant, an Algerian named Jeannot...
When he left the Paris Conservatory in 1953, fringe-bearded French Pianist-Composer Jacques Loussier, now 27, took a hasty look at the world of classical music-and decided it was no place to earn a living. "I thought," says he, "it was time to tear down the barriers between jazz and classic.'' Loussier knew just the man to help him: Johann Sebastian Bach...
...reunion of McKenzie-Condon's Chicagoans-the band organized by Guitarist Eddie Condon and Kazooist Red McKenzie in the 1920s. Among those present: Condon, Saxophonist Bud Freeman, Bass Player Bob Haggart, Drummer Gene Krupa, Trumpeter Jimmy McPartland, Clarinetist Pee Wee Russell, Pianist Joe Sullivan, Trombonist Jack Teagarden. Their enthusiasm has withered little with the years. The album is a remarkable recreation of a style 40 years dead-a style that is reborn in Sullivan's honky-tonk piano and Russell's keening clarinet and, most delightfully, in Teagarden's lumpy but moving vocals in Logan Square...
...train the ear, to read scores and to develop a modicum of acquaintance with actual presentation of the art. The department required such ability at the piano under Professor Merritt's chairmanship, although no credit was granted for the fulfillment of this requirement. The appointment of a distinguished pianist, Miss Luise Vosgerchian, to direct the instruction has given it new emphasis...