Word: pianistics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Competitions are the only way to give impetus to a career-until someone thinks of a better way," said Pianist Agustin Anievas last week. He spoke with authority: Anievas had just won the first annual Dimitri Mitropoulos International Music Competition-a brand-new contest designed to uncover talented new pianists both from the U.S. and abroad...
Back in the days when he was just another struggling West Coast pianist, Dave Brubeck was a critical success, extravagantly admired by the eggheads of jazz. Since then, he has become the biggest record seller in jazz-and some of the critics have yet to forgive him his popularity. Last week Brubeck completed one of the most successful tours ever staged by a jazz musician in England-and still he took a pounding in the press...
...specialist" to be "one of the most important assets any jazz musician can possess today." In his newspaper column Green grumped that "the quartet is so markedly deficient in certain essential jazz qualities that its popularity can hardly be regarded as a success for jazz at all." Pianist Brubeck was understandably irritated but not unduly worried. His success proved, he said, not that he had "gone commercial," but that "the public is a darn sight smarter than we think they...
...Riverside (12-226). Monk was a pioneer in the controlled use of space in his writing and playing, and his tonal practices are totally original. He is also one of the great wits of jazz. Try one of the several records on which he appears as a solo pianist. Cecil Taylor occupies the position of enfant terrible of the piano which Monk once held. His music--sometimes only peripherally music--consists largely of totally free improvising. It is an exhilarating and frequently terrifying experience. His best work to date may be found on Candid 8006. The most important contributions...
...Pianist and composer RON BROWN '63 studied with Bill Evans, George Russell, and John Lewis, and played with Ornette Coleman at the Lenox School of Jazz. A "reluctant resident of Leverett House, he was until recently Jazz Director of WHRB...