Word: sidemen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ideas back & forth on a raised platform in the center of a big oval bar. Thirty-five-year-old Marian, long, lean and suntanned, sits at the baby grand with an inward look in her eyes as her fingers ripple easily over the keyboard. Behind her are her solid sidemen, Bass Fiddler Bob Carter and Drummer Joe Morello, flicking out accompaniments. The result is some of the cleanest, most inventive "progressive" jazz to be heard anywhere...
...jazzdom's most versatile pianists trips the dark fantastic in a dozen of the best-liked Gershwin gems. There are times when the tune is hard to find, but Peterson's feeling for mood and invention never falters. In the same series and with the same fine sidemen (Guitarist Barney Kessel and Bassist Ray Brown) are LPs of Cole Porter, Duke Ellington, and Irving Berlin tunes...
...Tatum, 42, the old master of the swing era, and a pair of smooth-sounding sidemen riffed through Sweet Sue and Sweet Lorraine. His right hand rippled all over the keyboard, but the overall effect was one of sophistication rather than pandemonium...