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Aficionados had much the same reaction to two sophisticated young pianists who made New York City debuts last week. One was jazzman Matt Savage, who led his trio through a swinging, bop-tinged evening at Manhattan's Blue Note. His sets ranged from the standard My Favorite Things to originals like Groovin' on Mount Everest. He traced melodies simply, sometimes decorating them with trills, and shifted between softly gliding passages and furious fantasias with his arms whipping up and down the keyboard, using even his fist to bang out a climactic chord. "Scary," marveled jazz pianist D.D. Jackson...
Although Gruenbaum entered the art world through traditional music—he is a classically trained pianist and clarinetist—he now tends toward the abstract. “I got bored with classical, so I moved on to jazz. Then I got bored with that,” he said...
...said, “but that isn’t the only reason for it. I was focusing on the rhythm of the line—the contour of the line when I made this. It’s actually hard to get used to, as a pianist. I need to start a kid on this young to see what it can really...
DIED. EUGENE ISTOMIN, 77, classical pianist; of liver cancer; in Washington. A renowned soloist, he won national acclaim at 17 after debuts in the same week with both the New York and the Philadelphia philharmonic orchestras. He was also celebrated for his later work in a trio with violinist Isaac Stern and cellist Leonard Rose...
This is the strange but true story of how a failed jazz pianist from Passaic, N.J., became the author of one of the best-selling books in history. In 1997 Mitch Albom wrote a sad, funny account of his conversations with a dying man. Tuesdays with Morrie went on to sell more than 5.7 million copies in hardcover alone. It spent four straight years at the top of the New York Times best-seller list. Now the story is getting stranger: Albom has done it again, with a novel called The Five People You Meet in Heaven (Hyperion; 196 pages...