Jazz Articles about Hod O'Brien

Hod O'Brien: Live at Blues Alley - Third Set, I'm Getting Sentimental Over You, I Hear a Rhapsody and Yardbird Suite

by Ken Dryden
August 5, 2007

Hod O'Brien has more than paid his dues during a long jazz career that began during the height of the bop era in the '50s; He has been praised by fellow pianist Barry Harris (with whom he recorded a duo piano concert CD issued by Spice of Life) as “one of the pure bop pianists . The pianist took a decade-long hiatus to attend college between 1963 and 1973, but he returned to the jazz scene in the mid '70s ...