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...BRAD MEHLDAU Elegiac Cycle (Warner Bros.). A 29-year-old pianist who displays not only promise but accomplishment. With classical grace and jazz improvisation, he has created a masterly album about loss; virtually every track has the liquid warmth of a freshly shed tear. Moments of genius in music are rare as diamonds. This CD sparkles like a display case at Tiffany...
Though his ability to wrap his voice around a romantic lyric arguably ranked him near Elvis, Sinatra and Lady Day, the pop balladeer (and jazz pianist) Nat King Cole is unfortunately perhaps best remembered today as Natalie's dad. Epstein's insightful new book--best read while listening to Cole's rereleased album The Christmas Song--should remedy things. The biographer sometimes digs too deep into esoterica, spending pages analyzing the lyrics of Straighten Up and Fly Right, for example. But when he recounts the singer's personal struggles, including a shocking 1956 onstage kidnapping attempt by Alabama racists...
DIED. CHARLES THOMAS, 64, jazz pianist who played with Duke Ellington and Tony Bennett; of prostate cancer; in Little Rock, Ark. Thomas turned down an offer to fill in for the Duke permanently after his death, in favor of playing small clubs in his home state of Arkansas...
...Takada, a pianist, often experiences stiffness in her shoulder. She says that basic Tai Chi exercises--specifically the "double cranes in flight" and the "separation of heaven from earth"--help her alleviate the discomfort...
...bulk of The Rubinstein Collection is given over to later performances that too often are cautious, occasionally even bland. But the first 11 discs, recorded in the '20s and '30s and exquisitely remastered by Ward Marston, sizzle with the devil-may-care brio that made Rubinstein the best-loved pianist of his generation...