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Eileen Jackson was born in 1920 in Minneapolis, Minn. As a child, she established herself as a prodigious piano player. She played her first concert at the age of seven and continued to perform throughout the country for much of her life, eventually playing Carnegie Hall...
...right—was nearly full to capacity with an older-and-hipper-than-usual crowd, sharply and self-consciously dressed. But the tenor of the evening was intimate. Sound levels were low and sympathetic, and Adams played alone—alternately on an acoustic guitar, a grand piano and a resonator guitar—with limited live strings accompaniment. He played a good number of selections from his debut solo album Heartbreaker, including “My Winding Wheel,” “Sweet Lil’ Gal (21st/3rd)”, “Call...
...Knight with some late-career fanfare. During the initial Eloise craze, he was often overshadowed by the zany Thompson, an accomplished nightclub performer and voice coach to such stars as Judy Garland and Lena Horne. Given to bouts of melodrama, she once sawed the legs off her baby grand piano so that she could serenade her pug "eyeball to eyeball." By all accounts, her sanity teetered as she aged. She spent her last years holed up in the apartment of her goddaughter Liza Minnelli, refusing contact with almost everyone...
...just this," Guest says, pointing to the piano pushed off to the side and the single support column in the middle of the room. Here, he will work with a cast of nine students to develop an original production inspired by absurdist playwright Samuel Beckett...
...gotten much tighter since our early days.” Both Gray and Ball disavow any knowledge of the mess of buttons and samplers that sit behind drummer Olly Peacock onstage, from whence come the skittish beat of “Detroit Swing 66” and the manic piano riff of “Army Dub.” But perhaps the most impressive element of the show is the band’s ability to reproduce the rich vocal harmonies from their albums live with near-Beach Boys faithfulness and beauty...