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Article: Interview

John di Martino: Piano Man In/On Demand

by Marcia Hillman
March 31, 2009

John di Martino is a New York area based pianist, composer, arranger and Venus recording artist. He is a sought after musical director and is in demand by many singers as an accompanist, having accompanied such singers as Jon Hendricks, Sylvia Sims, Diane Schuur and Billy Eckstine. His talents as a pianist and arranger can be ...

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Article: Live Review

Curtis Clark, Connie Crothers, and Joe Bonner: Exploring the World of Piano in Northampton, MA

by Lyn Horton
March 8, 2009

Curtis Clark, Connie Crothers, Joe Bonner World of Piano Series Northampton Center of the Arts Northampton, Massachusetts Sitting at the piano before playing it is somewhat like sitting at a drawing table in front of a blank piece of paper before drawing on it. The keyboard is like the piece ...

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Article: Live From New York

March 2009

by AAJ Staff
March 7, 2009

Helen Sung and Ron CarterHelen Sung and Ron CarterRubin MuseumNew York City February 6, 2009To hear pianist Helen Sung and bassist Ron Carter in a duo setting at the Rubin Museum (Feb. 6th), in a small theater with no amplification, will surely rank as one of this year's ...

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Article: Interview

Jochen Pfister: Touring with Sheila Jordan

by AAJ Staff
March 6, 2009

German pianist Jochen Pfister had played in workshops with Sheila Jordan in Germany and, at her invitation, in the United States. In 2008, while in Cologne, he asked her if she might be interested in a German tour. “Yes" was the answer, and now it's about happen The first gig is Friday Match 6, 2009, in ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Anthony Braxton: The Complete Arista Recordings

by Clifford Allen
January 19, 2009

Anthony BraxtonThe Complete Arista RecordingsMosaic2008 Few artists in the realm of improvised music can claim as important or varied a series of recordings as reedman-composer Anthony Braxton did during his contract to Arista Records in the 1970s. With the financial backing provided by what was then an upstart ...

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Abstraction & Improvisation

By Lennie Tristano

Label: FiveFour
Released: 2007
Track listing: Untitled Blues; Blue Boy; Atonement; Coolin

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Berlin Jazz Piano Workshop 1965

By Bill Evans

Label: Impro-Jazz
Released: 2007
Track listing: Intro ; Memories Of You ; I've Got The World On A String ; Love; All Of Me; Django ; Cool Boogie; Beautifull Love; Free Improvisation ; Rosetta;

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Article: Book Review

Lennie Tristano: Jazz Visions & Lennie Tristano: His Life in Music

by Francis Lo Kee
August 5, 2007

In 1949 Lennie Tristano (1919-78) recorded “Intuition and “Digression , two of the earliest examples of freely improvised jazz. Though the approaches and content differ greatly, authors Peter Ind and Eunmi Shim agree on the following: Tristano best represents how a non-commercial artist can be “air-brushed out of jazz history as an extremely influential teacher.

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Article: Album Review

Lennie Tristano: Abstraction & Improvisation

Read "Abstraction & Improvisation" reviewed by Nic Jones

by Nic Jones
April 26, 2007

Pianist, composer and educator Lennie Tristano's place in the history of the music seems anomalous from the vantage point of the twenty-first century. His music was arguably as iconoclastic as that of Charlie Parker's and Dizzy Gillespie's and equally of its time, but in contrast with that it can come across as colorless and one-dimensional. His ...

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Article: Wide Open Jazz and Beyond

Lennie Tristano

by Peter Madsen
May 30, 2006

"It would be useless for me to play something I don't feel. I wouldn't be doing anything. If I played something that I'd have to impose on myself, I wouldn't be playing anything good." (Lennie Tristano - 1950) “Everybody in this country is very neurotic now. They're afraid to experience an intense emotion, the ...