Home » Search Center » Results: Marian McPartland
Results for "Marian McPartland"
Ain't Misbehavin'-- Live at the Jazz Showcase
Label: Concord Music Group
Released: 2001
Track listing: "Ain't Misbehavin'," "Along Came Betty," "Close Your Eyes," "It Don't Mean a Thing," "Spring Is Here," "Paper Moon," "Autumn Nocturne," "Just One of Those Things."
Marian McPartland & Willie Pickens: Ain't Misbehavin'
by Jim Santella
Five duets and two solo pieces apiece give veteran pianists Marian McPartland and Willie Pickens plenty of room to stretch out. This live session was recorded just before Christmas last year at Joe Segal's Jazz Showcase in Chicago. The program of chestnuts leaves room for individual interpretation, as well as the chance to recall a familiar ...
Marian McPartland/Willie Pickens: Ain't Misbehavin': Live at the Jazz Showcase
by Dave Nathan
One usually hears Marian McPartland working in tandem with another pianist on her long running NPR show. But here she matches up with venerable Chicago piano stylist Willie Pickens during a week long run at Joe Segal's Jazz Showcase in the Windy City in December of 2000. What a happy Christmas present for Chicago jazz fans. ...
Marian McPartland and Willie Pickens: Ain't Misbehavin'-- Live at the Jazz Showcase
by Bob Powers
Liner notes can produce fascinating facts. In the notes by Neil Tesser for “Ain’t Misbehavin’ -- Live at the Jazz Showcase, we learn that McPartland got her start in show business in a British musical act called Billy Mayerl and His Claviers. That insignificant fact points out that McPartland has been around for a long time. ...
On 52nd Street
Label: Savoy Jazz
Released: 2000
Track listing: Re-release by re-release, Savoy Jazz is revealing for jazz enthusiasts the richness of its library, built with an iron fist but with perspicacity, by owner Herman Lubinsky. The latest re-issue to astound listeners with head-scratching wonder (I wonder why this wasn't available before) is a documentation of some of Marian McPartland's earliest popular recordings, which led to her later renown. An institution at the Hickory House in the 1950's, McPartland's trio went through several personnel changes. Concord's "Hickory House Trio Reprise" captured live recordings of her 1954-1956 version with Bill Crow and Joe Morello. But that was after her group hit its stride. Savoy's "On 52nd Street" perhaps is even more significant because it includes two of McPartland's early bassists, Vinnie Burke and Bob Carter, who joined her group after the shakeout period involving her first accompanists, bassist Max Wayne and drummer Mel Zelnick. Just as interesting is the fact that "On 52nd Street" documents one of recording engineer wizard Rudy Van Gelder's earliest achievements in reproducing jazz as close as possible to its live performance sound, even with the crude equipment he must have worked with. Credit super-sleuth and legendary producer Orrin Keepnews with tracking down that fact. On "On 52nd Street," McPartland seems to be of two minds: entertaining and breezy in front of a live audience as they clink drinks and clatter and chatter (thanks Rudy for minimizing that sound), and meditative and explorative in the studio where the last five tracks were recorded. That split personality which establishes her genius seems to exist even today: Marian the entertainer who can charm the coldest listener and Marian the versatile intellectual who can play in the style of any pianist who appears on her radio program. Absorbing ideas and styles like a sponge, McPartland shows her influences from Shearing as she block-chords her way through, say, "Willow Weep For Me," and from Powell as she exhibits bop influences in her assured right-hand improvisations. Providing a hint of the Marian to come, "On 52nd Street" enlarges the Savoy Jazz re-release schedule with yet another worthy contribution that's worth every penny of its cost. And maybe more. A Foggy Day; The Lady Is A Tramp; I've Got The World On A String; Manhattan; Aunt Hagar's Blues; Four Brothers; Once In A While; Just Squeeze Me; Liza; September Song; Embraceable You; Laura; What Is This Thing Called Love?; There Will Never Be Another You; Willow Weep For Me; A Fine Romance; Lullaby In Rhythm
Meet Lynne Arriale
by Craig Jolley
Pianist Lynne Arriale served an apprenticeship in New York before striking out with her own trio in the early 90's. Her resume includes a performance at the 1998 IAJE convention and an appearance on Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz. She has released six CD's to date. Live at Montreux (TCB 20252), a trio session with Steve Davis, ...
Marian McPartland: The Single Petal Of A Rose
by John Sharpe
Like pure spring water from a bottomless well, jazz musicians continue to draw inspiration from the mammoth Ellington songbook. Pianist Marian McPartland, who has spent more than 60 years in music, adds to an ever-growing number of tribute CDs with the classy Single Petal Of A Rose. Recording live before an intimate gathering of 50 at ...
Marian McPartland: On 52nd Street
by AAJ Staff
Re-release by re-release, Savoy Jazz is revealing for jazz enthusiasts the richness of its library, built with an iron fist but with perspicacity, by owner Herman Lubinsky. The latest re-issue to astound listeners with head-scratching wonder (I wonder why this wasn't available before) is a documentation of some of Marian McPartland's earliest popular recordings, which led ...
Reprise
Label: Concord Music Group
Released: 1999
Track listing: I Hear Music; Street of Dreams; I Thought About You; Stella by Starlight; Falling in Love with Love; Last Night When We Were Young; In Your Own Sweet Way; New Orleans; Tickle Toe; Two for the Road; Symphony; Cymbalism; Things Ain
