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Marian McPartland & Friends: 85 Candles: Live in New York
by Jim Santella
On the day after Marian McPartland turned 85, this large group of her jazz friends got together at Birdland in New York to celebrate with her. She played piano with them in an endearing program of love songs that belie their affection for each other. Everybody loves Marian McPartland and respects her for her many accomplishments.
Windows
Label: Concord Music Group
Released: 2004
Track listing: Disc 1: Tell Me A Bedtime Story; It Never Entered My Mind; No Trumps; Wind Flower; I Won't Dance; Spring Can Really
Hang You Up The Most; Matrix; Time And Time Again. Disc 2: I Love You; Willow Weep For Me; Windows; In The
Days Of Our Love; Cotton Tail; Here's That Rainy Day; On Green Dolphin Street; Oleo
Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz with Lionel Hampton
Label: Concord Music Group
Released: 2004
Track listing: Conversation, Teach Me Tonight, Conversation, Sweet Georgia Brown, Conversation, Midnight Sun, Conversation, How High The Moon, Conversation, What's New, Conversation, Mack The Knife, Conversation, Flying Home, Conversation
Piano Jazz with Mary Lou Williams
Label: Unknown label
Released: 2004
Track listing: 1 - Space Playing Blues
2 - Conversation
3 - Baby Man
4 - Conversation
5 - What's Your Story, Morning Glory?
6 - Conversation
7 - Scratchin' In The Gravel
8 - Conversation
9 - Medi No. 2
10 - Conversation
11 - Rosa Mae
12 - Conversation
13 - Rosa Mae
14 - Conversation
15 - Caravan
16 - Conversation
17 - I Can't Get Started
18 - Conversation
19 - Jeep Is Jumpin', The
20 - Conversation
21 - Exit Playing
Marian McPartland and Lionel Hampton: Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz with Lionel Hampton
by Aaron Rogers
For over twenty years, jazz pianist Marian McPartland has hosted NPR's Piano Jazz, a radio broadcast that showcases some of the most important artists in jazz history. Piano Jazz not only presents McPartland's piano playing along with the music of jazz greats like Bill Evans and Dizzy Gillespie, but it also provides a forum for her ...
Marian McPartland: Windows
by Steven Robinson
Windows is a combined CD reissue of two out-of-print albums recorded by pianist Marian McPartland in 1979. Disc one, originally released as Portrait of Marian McPartland, is a studio trio recording with Brian Torff (bass) and Jake Hanna (drums) with the addition of the immensely talented Jerry Dodgion. It’s simply a great set. The trio plays ...
Marian McPartland: Piano Jazz with Mary Lou Williams
by Terrell Kent Holmes
Pianist and world treasure Marian McPartland, who received a NARAS Trustees Award at this year’s Grammy Awards, has hosted her radio show Piano Jazz for about a quarter century. The Jazz Alliance label has captured a few of these jewels on CD, including the wonderful premiere featuring the very underappreciated pianist, arranger and composer Mary Lou ...
Marian McPartland in Huntsville, Alabama, February 27, 2004
by Ken Dryden
Still going strong at 85, Marian McPartland hardly coasts her way through a concert, playing a predictable set. She does have her favorite quips, quoting Lawrence Welk’s insistence on introducing Billy Strayhorn’s best known composition as “Take a Train," or dedicating Chick Corea’s “Windows" to Microsoft founder Bill Gates, but her performances always contain (as Whitney ...
Savoy Jazz Reaches 60, But Looks Beyond
by R.J. DeLuke
Every so often someone in jazz has their career resurrected. Different elements feed into that. Good luck; a sudden public “discovery;" Perseverance. Going on in jazz right now, however, is the resurrection of an old tried and true recording label, Savoy Jazz. It's the result of hard work and a desire to maintain classic ...
Marian McPartland: Windows
by John Kelman
While the time has hopefully passed where a person’s gender should have any impact on the recognition they receive for their art, still it should be noted that pianist Marian McPartland, now entering her eighty-sixth year, has been both a musical trend-setter and role model for more than one generation of aspiring female jazz instrumentalists.
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