Word: pianists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Those are just his short-range plans. Long-term, Thomas wants to open a disco. And a jazz, club. And a 24-hour bookstore. He wants to be a concert pianist. He wants to produce filmsand theatrical productions. He wants to rewrite West Side Story as a gay romance, the way he believes Leonard Bernstein wanted to do it in the first place. He wants to meet Florence Henderson. And that...
...combo he occasionally assembled around him, these 20 tracks were laid down only months before he retired. Some were fleetingly available on LP years ago; the rest were never released. They are sublime chamber jazz -- close-knit yet relaxed, subtle, pulsing with the interplay of brilliant sidemen like pianist Hank Jones and guitarist Tal Farlow...
STAN GETZ/KENNY BARRON: PEOPLE TIME (Verve). When the legendary tenor saxophonist Stan Getz died of cancer last June at age 64, the master of cool riffs and sultry melodic lines left an immense void in the jazz world. This two-volume set of duets with pianist Kenny Barron, recorded in Copenhagen only four months before Getz's death, combines passion, urgency and haunting beauty in a triumphant last testament...
CHARLES IVES: PIANO SONATA NO. 2; AARON COPLAND: PIANO SONATA (Cedille Records). Ives' great "Concord" Sonata is a massive four-movement impressionistic piece marked by dense, polytonal chords, rhythmic daring and wit. Rarely performed because of its difficulty, it is brought to life here by pianist Easley Blackwood, whose secure technique and long involvement with the work are sure to win it a wider audience...
Dunster House Music Society--presents flutist Sally Rubin '83, cellist Owen Young, violinist Danielle Maddon, and harpsichordist and pianist Michael Beattie. Free. Dunster House Library...