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Marian McPartland: Threnody (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music January 13, 08True, she blazes bebop and swings steadier than Big Ben, but when Marian McPartland enfolds her hands around a ballad...
Marian McPartland: Cloudy (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music December 03, 07Mary Lou Williams was a leading light through each epoch of jazz; her playing, composing, and arranging were equally ...
Mary Lou Williams: Medi No. 2 (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music December 03, 07Composed during her religious chapter, “Medi No. 2,” also on Zoning (1974) and Mary Lou’s Mass (1977), demonstrates h...
Marian McPartland: Lonely Woman (Rating: 86/100) posted in Music March 12, 08Here's a track to fool your snobby jazz friends on a blindfold test. Marian McPartland, on a new CD released a few d...
Marian McPartland: When The Saints Go Marching In (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music September 17, 09As host of the long-running radio series Piano Jazz, Marian McPartland has played innumerable piano duets with some o...
Gerry Mulligan with Marian McPartland: C Jam Blues (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music May 25, 08At this stage of his career, Gerry Mulligan was best known for leading a quartet without a piano. Yet here he is at t...
Marian McPartland: Cool (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music February 11, 09Long after she'd recorded them, Marian McPartland was confronted with several of her 10" Savoy albums to be autograph...
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Scads of Broadway show tunes have become jazz standards, but probably no single musical proved more popular with...
Marian McPartland: A Fine Romance (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 20, 07So, is Marian McPartland, best known for hosting NPR's long-running Piano Jazz, a radio personality who plays jazz we...
OctoJAZZarian Profile: Marian McPartland posted in Features and Interviews May 02, 08For the first time in jazz’s brief century, many leading artists are staying active beyond their 8th decade. Oct...
Marian McPartland Plays Ornette Coleman (and Everything Else!) posted in The Jazz.com Blog March 12, 08A few days ago, 86-year-old Humphrey Lyttelton announced that he will be ending his BBC show The Best of Jazz after...
McPartland, Marian (Margaret Marian Turner) posted in Encyclopedia December 17, 08Pianist Marian McPartland has mastered virtually every style of jazz, including bebop and free jazz, in her more tha...
Jazz Stars Come Out to Celebrate 30 Years of NPR's Piano Jazz posted in The Jazz.com Blog April 20, 09Jazz.com’s arnold jay smith covers the OctoJAZZarian beat for us. His contributions here (as you may have figu...
OctoJAZZarians posted in Miscellaneous Pages July 05, 08In OctoJAZZarians, a regular jazz.com feature, arnold jay smtih profiles jazz legends who are creative and active be...
OctoJAZZarian Profile: Jimmy Heath posted in Features and Interviews July 05, 08For the first time in jazz’s brief century, many leading artists are staying active beyond their 8th decade. Oct...
Piket, Roberta posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Piket, Roberta (Lynn), pianist, composer, educator, organist, rranger; b. Queens, NY, 9 August 1965. She was born ...
Friedman, Janice posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Friedman, Janice, piano; b. Bronx, NY, 26 December 1960. Her parents are Elaine (Rosenberg) Friedman and Melvin Fried...
OctoJAZZarian Profile: Barbara Carroll posted in Features and Interviews February 15, 09For the first time in jazz’s brief century, many leading artists are staying active beyond their 8th decade. OctoJAZ...
OctoJAZZarian Profile: Dick Hyman posted in Features and Interviews July 20, 09For the first time in jazz’s brief century, many leading artists are staying active beyond their eighth decade. Octo...
Kimbrough, Frank (Frank Marshall Kimbrough Jr.) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Kimbrough, Frank (Frank Marshall Kimbrough Jr.), piano; b. Roxboro, NC, 2 November 1956. His father, Frank Kimbrough,...
Sayer, Cynthia (Nan) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Sayer, Cynthia (Nan), banjoist, pianist, vocalist, tenor guitarist, percussionist; b. Waltham, MA, 20 May 1956. ...
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