Jazz Articles about Jimmy Amadie

Jimmy Amadie Trio: Live At The Philadelphia Museum of Art

by C. Michael Bailey
July 5, 2013

In a period of profound artistic expansion and change in jazz, with labels like ECM, Winter & Winter and Pirouet and countless self- produced recordings erasing and redrawing genre lines, is it even proper (or even necessary) to celebrate the time tested, the mainstream, the old fashioned purveyors of the music? Is there a need for one more traditional piano trio recording featuring a collection of standards stepped on more than times than black tar in Nuevo Larado? For an ...

Jimmy Amadie: Kindred Spirits

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 3, 2010

Dalla vita di Amadie si potrebbe trarre un soggetto cinematografico. Nato a Filadelfia 73 anni fa, è stato in gioventù un buon atleta di football e un promettente pianista. Conclusi gli studi di pianoforte al conservatorio ha iniziato a lavorare con jazzmen di primo piano (Woody Herman, Mel Tormé, Red Rodney, Coleman Hawkins) dimostrando ottime doti d'improvvisatore, con un fraseggio fluido ed elegante, sulla linea Tommy Flanagan/Hank Jones. Negli ultimi anni cinquanta fu un pianista molto apprezzato sulla scena dei ...

Jimmy Amadie: Let's Groove!

by Jim Santella
January 6, 2006

Let's Groove! provides a tribute to Mel Tormé through a comfortable collection of originals and songs associated with the great jazz singer. Four veterans of the jazz world give each selection plenty of personality. Pianist Jimmy Amadie turns out yet another treasure trove of straight-ahead delights with a closely-knit musical partnership that has existed for many years. The program includes sensual ballads as well as hard-driving romps. Tormé loved to interpret music both ways. Here Phil Woods lends a hand, ...

Jimmy Amadie: In a Trio Setting & Live at Red Rocks

by AAJ Staff
October 25, 2004

By Stephen McGrath

Jimmy Amadie In a Trio Setting: A Tribute to Frank Sinatra TP Recordings 2002

Mr. Amadie has accomplished what some might call his “impossible dream." Once a promising pianist, Amadie was struck with severe tendonitis early in his professional career. Not to say Mr. Amadie didn't have many professional triumphs, playing with the likes of Woody Herman's band, Mel Torme, and Red Rodney to name a few. But it became too ...

Jimmy Amadie Trio: Live at Red Rock Studio: A Tribute to Tony Bennett

by Joshua Weiner
July 20, 2004

If I keep harping on this, I'm going to get a reputation as a curmudgeon. But the continuing practice of slapping together several unrelated tunes and, in an attempt to get noticed, wrapping around them a weakly coherent concept which, as often as not, invokes a famous and well-loved jazz personality, has got to stop. I will, however, forgive Jimmy Amadie for doing whatever he can to promote his new album, Live at Red Rock Studio: A Tribute to Tony ...

Jimmy Amadie: In A Trio Setting

by Jim Santella
March 1, 2003

Pianist Jimmy Amadie interprets each classic, Sinatra-type standard on In A Trio Setting with a crystalline touch and his usual buoyant swing. His improvisation carries the trio along natural paths with a universal sense of time.

The salute to Frank Sinatra is coincidental, but it does represent the range of this artist, who took five years and two more operations to complete the project. Jimmy Amadie has acute tendonitis in both hands. Pretty tough for a pianist. ...

A Fireside Chat With Jimmy Amadie

by AAJ Staff
February 28, 2003

To say that Jimmy Amadie is 'remarkable' would be an understatement. Amadie has suffered from sever tendentious for the better part of his life and virtually twice my own. This kind of pain has been career ending in sports. What makes his story even more 'remarkable' is Amadie is not a wide receiver for the Eagles. He is a pianist, a jazz pianist. His hands are his tools to his trade and they barely function. Amadie's 'remarkable' journey is one ...