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Sunday, January 14, 2018

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Jazz piano
Weekly update January 14, 2018
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In 1994, when rapper Nas sampled the pianist Ahmad Jamal on his track The World Is Yours, he seemed to rekindle a love affair between jazz and hip-hop – and inspire a generation of jazz pianists to play as if they'd been sampled by a hip-hop producer. Ashley Henry, a 26-year-old pianist from south ...
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Just last month, Japanese jazz pianist Riyoko Takagi decided to celebrate the festive season by performing a Christmas medley on the piano while dressed in a revealing Santa outfit. After receiving support and praise from thousands of people who viewed her holiday video, Takagi decided to celebrate ...
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Pianist Marcus Roberts has always brought us music full of blues and swing, but he never sounds like a Throwback Thursday special. He insists on old-school virtues in his music, but he also insists on individuality — on harmony that pushes back where another player's chords might be too cushy, ...
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The Del E. Webb Center for the Performing Arts' fifth annual Find Your Center Gala featuring classical pianist Alpin Hong and jazz pianist Michael Kaeshammer will be held on Saturday, February 17 beginning at 6 p.m. This annual event benefits the Webb Center's programs in Wickenburg. The Find ...
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Rather than appearing as himself in the show, Ed was transformed into cocky, crooning 11-year-old jazz performer, Brendan Beiderbecke, for the story. It all starts when Lisa drags her family to the local STEM conference (classic Lisa), where she hears Brendan aka Ed playing the piano, and swiftly falls ...
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The inspiration for the seven original compositions on Tricia Edwards' sophomore record, Intaglios, came from a variety of sources, including some not generally associated with the Latin jazz sounds the Calgary pianist explores on the album. For instance, the intro to Asian Speaks has literary origins, ...
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Pianist and composer Tigran Hamasyan's third Nonesuch recording, For Gyumri, is due February 16, 2018. A companion to 2017's An Ancient Observer, For Gyumri includes five additional songs. Hamasyan says: "These songs are musical observations about the world we live in now, and the weight of ...
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For Calgary pianist and Mount Royal University faculty member Tricia Edwards it's been a rich, rewarding life that has taken her from classical studies in Alberta and Germany, to a stay in the Middle East and back to this city, where she set her sights towards Latin America and how it could and can further ...
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As the last of the wrapping paper gets recycled and the resolutions start to be broken the jazz scene emerges from the seasonal wreckage and begins to put things back to rights. It's a busy start to 2018 for pianist Jim Blomfield who has a couple of ear-catching gigs this week, notably as part of Andy ...
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Time, in its many incarnations, is Fred Hersch's elusive topic in his new memoir "Good Things Happen Slowly" (Crown Archetype). Hersch is an acclaimed jazz pianist and composer and he's got a dramatic and heartening story to tell. Along the way he also provides a generous introduction to the jazz ...
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