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| Concert Association of Valparaiso welcomes back jazz pianist Jon Weber When jazz pianist Jon Weber lived in Chicago, it was easy for him to get to Valparaiso. Since he moved to New York City, more travel is certainly involved. Concert Association of Valparaiso closes its 2017-18 season by bringing back the past favorite on April 20 at First United Methodist Church of ...
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| Marshall to host Ellis Marsalis International Jazz Piano Competition Marshall University and the Nu Jazz Agency will present the Ellis Marsalis International Jazz Piano Competition June 22-23 on Marshall's Huntington campus. Among the largest competitions of its type in the world, the competition will be a triennial event in Huntington, offering an awards package of ...
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| Jazz inspiration leads pianist to interpret Brahms, Bowie, Radiohead At 41, Lackner benefits from having grown up in Berlin with classical training, but he was drawn into jazz and popular music early on thanks to a jazz drummer-uncle and attending a Miles Davis concert at age 12. By the time his family moved to California in 1989, he was able to get gigs in piano bars ...
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| Recalling The Athletic Style Of Pianist And Composer Cecil Taylor Pianist and composer Cecil Taylor died last week at age 89. Taylor was known for his highly-animated piano recitals and group improvisations, and sometimes used his fist or forearm on the keys to play dense clusters. Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead says Taylor's music could sound wild but was tightly ...
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| Celebrating the music of piano giant Willie Pickens For until his death last December, at age 86, Pickens was the personification of youthful energy, the man routinely conjuring storms of sound at the piano. He died of a heart attack at the pinnacle of his career, heading from a practice room at Jazz at Lincoln Center, in New York, into a rehearsal there for ...
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| Genre-blurring additions to Discover Jazz lineup Saturday, June 2: Chucho Valdes – Jazz Batá. A "giant of Afro-Cuban jazz piano," as the All Music Guide calls him, Chucho Valdes is a powerhouse performer known for his rhythmic command and seemingly effortless fusion of Latin, jazz and classical styles. An imposing presence at the keyboard at just ...
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| Cleo Brown On Piano Jazz Pianist and vocalist Cleo Brown (1909 – 1995) was one of the early innovators of the boogie-woogie style and the first female instrumentalist to be named an NEA Jazz Master. She retired from performing in the 1950s and focused her attention on religious music, bringing her gifted voice and strong left ...
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| The Deceptively Accessible Music of Cecil Taylor The pianist and composer, who died Thursday at 89, retains his ability to shock, despite decades of work and critical acclaim and a lengthy discography and performance history. Taylor's work is stranger and less immediately legible than Ornette Coleman, the other major founding father of free jazz; ...
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| Cecil Taylor obituary The maverick African-American jazz pianist and poet Cecil Taylor, who has died aged 89, gave an impression of constant motion and restless speed. He fused a virtuosic classical technique and an improvisational jazz one in a frenzy of fingerwork augmented by pounding fists and elbows, blurring ...
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| Ravinia Jazz Mentors perform concert tribute to Willie Pickens When Christine Taylor first heard jazz pianist Willie Pickens perform at Jazz Showcase in Chicago many years ago, she said "it blew me away." Taylor, director of Ravinia's Reach, Teach, Play program, said Pickens was powerful, virtuosic and soulful. Jazz guitarist Bobby Broom said Pickens maintained ...
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