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...constant comparison of this trio with the Bill Evans trio by critics has been a thorn in my side," frets the young jazz pianist Brad Mehldau, in quite possibly one of the most erudite and sincerely self-promotional set of liner notes in recent memory. The biographical hearsay and pseudo-legend that has plagued Mehldau throughout the years is certainly not the worse of fates, but let's give him a break... this is a man on a mission...
...most of her youth, she wanted to be a concert pianist; she still practices for an hour a day and gives recitals on the Stanford campus. But after entering the University of Denver at age 15 (she skipped two grades in school), her professional music prospects dimmed, and she began to feel "an inexplicable pull toward the study of Russia and communism and Eastern Europe...
DIED. KATIE WEBSTER, 63, blues pianist and singer who played with Otis Redding; of heart failure; in League City, Texas...
What You Didn't Know: Internationally renowned pianist Randall Hodgkinson has an office and practices regularly in the house...
...JOHNNY DEPP to play? He has already taken on angoraphile filmmaker Ed Wood and gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson. Now it seems he may consider portraying the original cape man himself, Liberace. Depp's agent confirms only that the actor has read a script based on the flamboyant pianist's life, but a revised version is currently being overseen by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, with whom Depp worked on Ed Wood. The screenwriters, no strangers to eccentricity, have also penned biopics on Hustler publisher Larry Flynt and oddball comic Andy Kaufman. Remember, Johnny, don't get too close...