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Milt Buckner: Locked Hands
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Yesterday I posted on Go Power!, saxophonist Illinois Jacquet's 1966 album with Milt Buckner on organ and Alan Dawson on drums. In the post, I mentioned that Buckner had created the locked-hands technique on the piano keyboard. Unleashing this difficult approach requires that both hands play the same chords with the song's melody note up on top. Thrilling for the listener, challenging for the player. Buckner (above) began playing this way on the piano while with Lionel Hampton in the ...
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Milt Buckner: Block Chords Parade
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
When pianist Billy Taylor asked fellow keyboard legend George Shearing in 1984 how he developed the “Shearing Sound," Shearing said he sandwiched the styles of two different musicians. Recalled Shearing: “When I came back to the States [in late 1947], I went to all of the big talent agencies. They seemed determined to make another Alec Templeton out of me. But I didn't want to do what I had already done. [Audiences] didn't need the English Art Tatum, or the English ...
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