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Died. Wynton Kelly, 39, jazz pianist; in Toronto. From the 1950s through the mid-'60s, Kelly was a catalytic figure in a number of groups featuring such improvisational superstars as Dizzy Gillespie,Miles Davis and the late Wes Montgomery. Kelly was credited with providing a vital blues-tinged version of the modern jazz idiom...
Died. Michael Field, 56, food expert and writer on the art of cooking; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. A successful concert pianist with a passion for cooking, Field started a culinary school and in 1964 turned his full attention to classic cuisine. He produced a series of literate cookbooks and debunked such myths as the need to wash mushrooms, devein shrimp and press garlic. He preached imaginative uses for leftovers, such as Armenian lamb pie made from roast leg of lamb. His books include Michael Field's Cooking School, Michael Field's Culinary Classics and Improvisations...
Picture a concert pianist of great technical skill whose fingers race across the keyboard like a riptide. Suddenly his face turns soulful, as if he were attempting to hang each note in the air like a snowflake. With a brisk, dryly ironic flourish he brings the composition to its close. But through the entire piece, the instrument has been soundless...
...hold their fans' attention with a blend of instrumental voices as tightly woven as Kenton at his best, and as much Kansas City freedom as Basie at his. Each member is a soloist. The bane has some 100 arrangements and plays expertly from them. But when people like Pianist Roland Hanna, Bassist Richard Davis and Saxophonist Eddie Daniels start mixing things up, it is anybody's guess when the printed music will be used again...
Ogdon's "shy bear" image helps camouflage an intense inner life, great dedication, intellect and sweeping ambition. Ogdon, in fact, is bidding hard to join a select though all but vanished company of virtuoso pianist-composers. At the close of the 19th and in the early 20th century, the musical type culminated in a series of men who combined powerful and poetic performing styles with highly idiosyncratic ways of writing for the piano-Rachmaninoff as well as Liszt, Busoni and Scriabin. Closer to the present time, the line seems to have ended with Prokofiev and Bart...