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Songs of Whitman: jazz pianist Fred Hersch crowns a lifetime of achievement with Leaves of Grass, an evening-long composition based on the poetry of protoqueer
"I've been dogged by my musical choices," says jazz pianist and composer Fred Hersch. "Yes, I chose to play Billy Strayhorn and Cole Porter, who were ......(Continue Reading) Anything goes: Richard Cook welcomes a crop of hot young singers who are stealing the show - jazz
For what seemed like decades, jazz singers had to play out their performing lives in a curious kind of ghetto. Caught in a limbo between art music and ......(Continue Reading)Duke Robillard: Blue Mood: the Songs of T-Bone Walker
DUKE ROBILLARD Blue Mood: The Songs of T-Bone Walker Stony Plain 1300 All around modern bluesman (ex-Roomful of Blues and Fabulous Thunderbirds) Robillard ......(Continue Reading)Salsa & Pepper: Ten Latin Jazz Solos for Piano - w/CD - Book Review
by Paul T. Smith. Creative Keyboard Publications/Mel Bay Publications, Inc. (P.O. Box 66, Pacific, MO 63069), 2003. 23 pp., $19.95. Intermediate. Salsa & Pepper is a collection of ten original La...(Continue Reading)Keyed up - jazz artists, Fred Hersch and Brad Mehldau
Jazz artists, Hersch and Mehldau, released their albums entitled 'Fred Hersch Plays Rodgers and Hammerstein,' and 'Songs: The Art of the Trio, Vol. 3,' ......(Continue Reading)
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