Word: pianists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ryder, an internationally famous pianist, checks into a hotel in a European town he cannot identify. Something seems to be expected of him--the clerk at the registration desk makes several references to "Thursday night"--but Ryder doesn't know exactly what. A porter named Gustav escorts Ryder and his luggage into an elevator, tells him, "We're not going up far," then launches into a lengthy monologue about his attempts to win greater respect for the craft of portering. Since a later detail suggests that Ryder's room is on the second floor, the elevator must move with...
Coltrane discoveries are continuing. The newly revived Impulse! label--which has already rereleased such late Coltrane albums as A Love Supreme--will release two more albums in October: the complete Africa/Brass sessions, in which Coltrane experiments with tribal rhythms, and Stellar Regions, mostly unreleased songs recorded with his pianist wife Alice only months before his death. The latest trove: 30 hours of raw tape found earlier this year, rescued as they were about to be trashed. Impulse! is negotiating to release these recordings starting next year. Dorn calls it "possibly one of the great musical discoveries of all time...
...happier half an hour later, as she glides into the Polo Lounge of the Beverly Hills Hotel. She says she's never been to a place so "posh" before, and the palpable glamour of the room, buzzing with dealmakers, seems to amuse her. A pianist is playing Gershwin songs as Bjork takes a seat at a table and divulges to a reporter her secret way of getting quicker service at snobby restaurants. Recently, when she was eating out, Bjork explains, "I had an apple in my bag, and so I picked it up and started eating it. There...
...pages; $39.95) is Rosen's demonstration of the value and pleasures of musicology. In the narrowest sense, the author explores a relatively brief period of music history--from the death of Beethoven (1827) to the death of Chopin (1849). Rosen applies not only his experience as an extraordinary pianist, but also his considerable grasp of such disciplines as art history, philosophy, literature and linguistics. The result is an elegant and altogether irresistible study that is destined to endure, along with an earlier, seminal work of Rosen's, The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven...
...West Coast jazz groups, the Liberation Orchestra and Quartet West. He met Jones three years ago, when both did guest turns on an Abbey Lincoln-Stan Getz album. Then, at a Verve Records anniversary celebration at New York's Carnegie Hall, Haden, with a little trepidation, cornered the dapper pianist backstage, proposing that they do an album of spirituals together. Jones agreed simply by starting to suggest song titles...