Word: pianos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ERNESTO LECUONA The Complete Piano Music, Vol. 1 (Bis). Everybody knows Lecuona's most famous composition, Malaguena. But there's much more than that to the prolific Cuban composer, who died in 1963. Fingers ablaze, pianist Thomas Tirino eloquently makes the case...
...JACKY TERRASSON Jacky Terrasson (Blue Note). Seated at the piano, this 30-year-old Parisian import doesn't just play a song; he seizes it, takes it through his own looking glass and refracts it in ways that squeeze fresh thrills out of old Rodgers and Hart and Cole Porter jazz standards. Terrasson's debut served notice that here is a star in the making...
...wife Mary, a former official of GOPAC, the political-action committee Gingrich headed until last May. The occasion was a fund raiser for his newest PAC, called Monday Morning. For a couple of pleasant hours the guests picked at their beef tenderloin, admired the Ourismans' baby grand piano and chatted up the most powerful man in Congress. At $1,000 a couple, the posh event yielded more than $30,000 in campaign money for G.O.P. congressional candidates...
...Byron, who is only in his 30's. While Batiste's sound is not physically as strong as Byron's, his clean, well-trained lines call attention to themselves nonetheless. In introducing the Thad Jones waltz "A Child Is Born," Batiste played into the guts of the opened grand piano and used the Steinway's vast sounding board as a natural amplifier, thus creating all sorts of lingering overtones. This experimental technique might have been expected more of the younger Byron than of Batiste, the elder statesman, but Batiste showed that he is more than a traditionalist throughout the concert...
...Friday night was able to bring out some of the richness of Ellington's masterwork without even approximating the infinitely intricate shades characteristic of the Ellington orchestra. All things considered, the band did an admirable job in performing this suite for the public. Such challenging parts as the piano once played by Duke, the lead trumpet once played by Cat Anderson, the baritone saxophone once played by Harry Carney and the lead alto saxophone of Johnny Hodges were handled well by McKinnon, AlMoffett, Rachel Flkins and Justin Wood, respectively...