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| After 30 years in San Francisco, jazz pianist Dick Whittington made Big Sur his home and brings ... If you've lived in Monterey County awhile and like jazz music, no doubt you've heard Dick Whittington play the piano, or at least heard his name. He grew up in L.A. with early musical direction from his father, a Vaudeville musician who specialized in Dixieland. The house was filled with the music of the ...
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| Jazz Piano Star Mark Berman Band Headlines Club Bonafide Mark Berman, renowned pianist and composer, presents his power jazz trio at starry jazz club Club Bonafide, 212 East 52nd Street, Friday April 6 at 8 pm. Berman, on piano, will feature his original songs as well as his jazz arrangements of pop tunes, standards and new works. Berman is joined by David ...
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| Cecil Taylor On Piano Jazz Cecil Taylor encompasses a never-ending range of sound and emotion. On his way to the Piano Jazz studio in 1994, the avant-garde jazz pianist and his cab driver discovered that they went to the same high school, opening up a whirlwind of small worlds, and inspiring the improvised piece that opens ...
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| Cecil Taylor, Trailblazing Jazz Pianist, Dead At 89 Cecil Taylor, a towering figure of free jazz and the avant-garde, died yesterday at the age of 89 in his Fort Greene, Brooklyn home, NPR confirmed this morning. A cause of death is not immediately known. Taylor, born in Corona, Queens in 1929, imagined a new language for the piano, recasting the ...
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Cuban Jazz Pianist Alfredo Rodríguez Plays New Album at The Jazz Kitchen Rodríguez possesses a truly dynamic touch on the piano, exuding passion and energy. It's a sound big enough to catch the ear of the legendary producer Quincy Jones. After hearing Rodríguez perform at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 2006, Jones invited the young pianist to America to record. After a ...
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| Nicholas Payton On Piano Jazz Trumpeter Nicholas Payton has been hailed as one of the greatest musicians of his generation. A native of New Orleans, Payton learned the art of improvisation from Wynton Marsalis and as a teen performed with the late trumpet master Clark Terry. A young virtuoso, Payton was in his 20s when he sat ...
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| Cecil Taylor, pianist who defied jazz orthodoxy, dies NEW YORK — Cecil Taylor, a pianist who challenged the jazz tradition that produced him and became one of the most bracing, rhapsodic, abstract and original improvisers of his time, died Thursday at his home in Brooklyn. He was 89. His death was confirmed by his legal guardian, Adam C. Wilner. Cecil Taylor, pianist who was 'the eternal outer curve of the avant-garde,' dies at 89 - Frederick News Post
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| From Henry Johnson to 'Tootie' Heath to Patricia Barber, a busy jazz week in Chicago The next several evenings will offer provocative listening in jazz. Among the highlights: Henry Johnson at the Jazz Showcase: Originally, the mighty New Orleans pianist-singer Henry Butler was to have played this weekend at the Jazz Showcase. That booking fell through, leaving the club to find a ...
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| Estes Park happenings Jazz. Earthwood Collections. 5-7 p.m.. April 6: Meet the Artist. Aspen and Evergreen. 5-7 p.m.. April 6-7: Ray Young. Jazz Piano. Nicky's Steakhouse. ... 7: Dempsey/Fox Duo. Jazz. The Other Side. 5-8 p.m.. April 7: David Berg. Piano and Song. Estes Park Resort. 6-9 p.m.. April 8: Joseph Lingenfelter.
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| One cool cat "When I was coming up and learning how to play, the old guys used to tell me, 'Jazz is blues and blues is jazz,'" he said. "I never quite understood that until I got older." Graham is highlighting the music of legendary jazz pianist Gene Harris on Sunday, April 8, as part of the Midtown Vanguard Jazz Series ...
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