Word: pianists
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...York, Hank became a protege of Art Tatum's, carrying the great blind pianist's music satchel from gig to gig. Jones developed his own keyboard style, taking some of Tatum's breakneck invention and adding a measure of cool, a distinctive touch of romantic reserve to offset the fire of what came, in time, to be called bebop. Jones was also a sideman for Lester Young, Charlie Parker, Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday; he went to school with the best...
Despite his hectic schedule, Nagano has found time for a personal life. He married the Japanese-born pianist Mari Kodama in 1992. He still takes time out twice a year for a surfing holiday. Looking out over the Pacific Ocean from his hilltop home in San Francisco, he speaks wistfully of settling down, although that isn't likely soon. He is busily planning events in Lyons and Manchester well into the next millennium. "I like coming up with new ideas," he says. "And if I fail once in a while, it's worth it." Anyone who has heard him conduct...
...Haden raise a "joyful noise" that, says TIME's Jay Cocks, is "not only unique in the jazz canon -- it's also uniquely beautiful." The Verve Records release, "a kind of informal jazz eucharist," pairs "two instrumental Olympians playing with improvisational brio and numinous respect for sources and traditions." Pianist Jones and bassist Haden have drawn on some history and autobiography and a little private meditation, set them deep in the spirit, then drawn them out into a jazz pilgrimage through Black spirituals, white hymns and folk tunes from Ireland and French Canada. "This isn't just great music," says...
...Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum closed out this year's concert season on April 30 with a performance by two of Boston's star musicians. Violinist James Buswell and pianist Max Levinson '93, whose personal interpretive styles differ enormously, offered a program of Bartok's Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Piano and Beethoven's Sonata for Violin and Piano...
...stride during his 1960s tenure at the Saturday Evening Post. During his subsequent years in the pages of Time and in his own nimbly crafted nonfiction, Friedrich emerged as an elegant explicator of just about everything: Superman, insanity, the pop art of Hollywood, the high art of pianist Glenn Gould, the collapse of German democracy, the demise of a rose garden...