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Lee Shaw Trio: Live in Graz
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Live in Graz gives listeners a chance to catch up with one of the more improbable second acts in jazz: that of eighty-something pianist Lee Shaw. A poised Shaw usefully recounts the biographical details in the accompanying DVD (which is unfortunately somewhat shoddily produced): she acquired a broad musical education in tiny Ada, Oklahoma; later continued ...
Live at MCG
By Billy Taylor
Label: Cornerstone Records Inc.
Released: 2008
Track listing: 01. Stompin at the Savoy (B. Goodman/C. Webb/E. Sampson); 02. Just You Just Me (J. Greer); 03. Darn That Dream (J. Van Hausen/E. Delange); 04. All The Things You
Are (J. Kerne/O. Hammertsein); 05. Laura (J. Mercer/D. Raskin); 06. Line for Lyons (G. Muligan); 07. Body and Soul (E. Heyman/R. Sour/F. Eyton/G. Greene); 08. Indiana
Back (J. Hanley); 09. Come Sunday (D. Ellington). 10. Capricious (B. Taylor).
Bret Primack Presents: When Billy Taylor Met Ben Webster
The latest edition of Bret “Jazz Video Guy" Primack’s blog is “Billy Taylor Meets Ben Webster.” In the fall of 1944, the very first night twenty-three year old Billy Taylor arrived in New York from Washington, D.C, he sat in at Minton's Playhouse, where Ben Webster was hanging out. Ben liked what he heard and invited ...
Candido: Fountain of Youth
by AAJ Staff
By Bobby Sanabria At the youthful age of 87, NEA Jazz Master Candido Camero has indeed led a full life with no signs of slowing down. While still maintaining a busy schedule of performing and traveling, “The Man of a Thousand Fingers" is still wowing audiences the world over as a shining example of ...
Rare Billy Taylor Recording with Charles Mingus Debuts
The year was 1951; the place, George Wein's Storyville, a popular Boston Jazz club; the music, the Billy Taylor Trio, featuring Charles Mingus. A radio transcription of a Storyville set with Billy's Trio is now being featured on his website, http://www.billytaylorjazz.net Writer Nat Hentoff, then a Staff Announcer a WMEX, regularly hosted remote broadcasts from two ...
A Living History Event with Dr. Billy Taylor (Summer 2008) at Teachers College Columbia University
Dr. Bert Konowitz and Jazz Giant, educator, composer, writer and TV personality, Dr. Billy Taylor in a conversation and performance focusing on the process, styles, repertoire and personalities that comprise the legend of Billy Taylor. Dr. Taylor will perform and discuss musical examples from his vast music collection and memorabilia housed in the Library of Congress ...
Billy Taylor - Gerry Mulligan: Live at MCG
by AAJ Italy Staff
Sono otto gli standard e due le composizioni originali di questa ottima incisione del ’93, firmata dall’inedito duo Mulligan/Taylor. Incontri come questo, all’insegna del bel suonare, imperversano da sempre nei festival e nella produzione discografica. A rendere interessante l’ascolto del disco è la classe immensa del magnifico baritonista. È una vera goduria per il fortunato acquirente ...
Live at MCG
By Billy Taylor
Label: MCG Jazz
Released: 2007
Track listing: Stompin' at the Savoy; Just You Just Me; Darn That Dream; All the Things You Are; Laura; Line for Lyons; Body and Soul; (Back Home Again In) Indiana; Come Sunday; Capricious.
Billy Taylor and Gerry Mulligan: Live at MCG
by Woodrow Wilkins
The typical jazz listener easily tires of hearing standards covered by newer artists. However, it's occasionally good to hear the masters revisit some of these old compositions--a way of staying connected. Jazz legends Billy Taylor and Gerry Mulligan have done that with Live at MCG. The Manchester Craftsmen's Guild is a non-profit organization in Pittsburgh, USA ...
Billy Taylor and Gerry Mulligan: Live at MCG
by Joel Roberts
Dr. Billy Taylor has spent so much of the latter part of his nearly sixty-year career in jazz as an educator and broadcaster that it's easy to forget what a brilliant pianist he is. This splendid 1993 date, billed as his first-ever performance with the late baritone sax legend Gerry Mulligan, should serve as a reminder ...
