HeraldNet - Snohomish County's Online News Source in Seattle, but on Tuesday, knighted pianist Murray Perahia Jazz Orchestra, 730 pmSaturday, Meany hall, UW campus NW, Seattle; steve Coleman, 730 pm Wednesday http://www.heraldnet.com/ae/stories/04/0415/18467638.cfm
Extractions: It's not often that even an honorary knight plays in Seattle, but on Tuesday, knighted pianist Murray Perahia performs at Meany Theater. The Queen of England recently recognized the musician's contribution, but critics have been heaping praise on Perahia for 30 years. He performed in October 2003 at Benaroya Hall as soloist and conductor of the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Orchestra, which recorded the "Amadeus" soundtrack. Where to hear it Murray Perahia : 8 p.m. Tuesday, Meany Theater, University of Washington campus, Seattle; $60; 206-543-4880. Springville : Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Meany Hall, UW campus; J.A. Granelli, 8 p.m. Sunday, Tractor Tavern, 5213 Ballard Ave. NW, Seattle; Steve Coleman, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday-Thursday, Triple Door, 216 Union, Seattle; ticket information 206-547-6763. Josh Kelley : 7 p.m. Sunday, Neumo's, 925 E. Pike St., Seattle; $10; 800-325-7328.
HeraldNet - Snohomish County's Online News Source pianist combines his penchant for improvisation with the lyrical jazzpiano tradition Granelli Mr. Lucky, 8 pm April 18 at Tractor hall; steve Coleman s Five http://www.heraldnet.com/ae/story.cfm?sectionname=MUSIC&file=04040218409913.cfm
Frequently Asked Questions - Pianist Composer Steve Barta steve Barta Music is an independent record label that I the area of classical musicwith noted pianist Susan Grace I much prefer a concert hall venue, where you http://www.stevebartamusic.com/faq.htm
Extractions: I have been with jazz labels in the past, and received worldwide distribution and promotion for my Blue River recording. Blue River also made it on the jazz charts. It was all very exciting to see my recording in the record stores, and know that my music was been played around the world. However, my partner Anneliesa and I wanted to retain control of the ownership of our sound recordings, and we therefore severed all ties with record companies and distributors. Yes, it's a lot of work, but we prefer to keep the fruits of our labor in the family. I feel a deep sense of gratitude for the enthusiastic support of my fans, and made it is possible for me to produce quality recordings and remain independent. Is it better for a musician to live in NY or L.A.?
Biography - Steve Swallow DeJohnette, steve Kuhn, Lyle Mays, Jim hall and Pat November of 96 he introducedThe steve Swallow Quintet and in June recorded with pianist Christian Jacob. http://www.wattxtrawatt.com/biosteve.htm
Extractions: STEVE SWALLOW Steve Swallow was born in New York City in 1940, and spent his childhood in Fair Lawn, New Jersey. Before turning to the acoustic bass at age 14, he studied piano (with Howard Kasschau, who also taught Nelson Riddle) and trumpet. His otherwise miserable adolescence was brightened by his discovery of jazz. He took many of his first stabs at improvisation with Ian Underwood (who subsequently became a Mother Of Invention and an L.A. studio ace), with whom he attended a swank New England private school. During his years at Yale University he studied composition with Donald Martino, and played dixieland with many of the greats, including Pee Wee Russell, Buck Clayton and Vic Dickenson. In 1960 he met Paul and Carla Bley, left Yale in a hurry, moved to New York City, and began to tour and record with Paul Bley, The Jimmy Giuffre Trio and George Russells sextet, which featured Eric Dolphy and Thad Jones. He also performed in the early 60s with Joao Gilberto, Sheila Jordan, and bands led by Benny Goodman, Marian McPartland, Chico Hamilton, Al Cohn and Zoot Sims, Clark Terry and Bob Brookmeyer, and Chick Corea. In 1964 he joined The Art Farmer Quartet featuring Jim Hall, and began writing music. Many of his songs have been recorded by prominent jazz artists, including Bill Evans, Chick Corea, Stan Getz, Gary Burton, Art Farmer, Phil Woods, Jack DeJohnette, Steve Kuhn, Lyle Mays, Jim Hall and Pat Metheny. And he was recently sampled by A Tribe Called Quest.
Extractions: Jazz pianist Steve Kuhn has had an illustrious career, performing with a host of jazz greats, including John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry, Stan Getz, Steve Swallow and Ron Carter. His solo career has often focused on trio work, but a new ECM recording, Promises Kept , pairs Kuhn with a string ensemble. April 29th's Merkin Hall concert featured the best of both worlds; one half was devoted to Kuhn in a trio setting, abetted by bassist David Finck and drummer Kenny Washington, while the other consisted of material from Promises Kept The trio's set began with a Tadd Dameron tune, "Super Jet". Both Kuhn and Finck are notable for their exploitation of their respective instruments' entire compasses. The pianist frequently drew upon widely spread chord voicings, with a penchant for arpeggiating up to the very top of the instrument. Finck, on the other hand, has a low C extension on his upright bass, and relished plumbing sepulchral depths with it. At other times, he soloed way up on the instrument's neck, favoring treacherously difficult glissandi that always landed true. Washington's drumming was enthusiastic but economical a wise choice given the relatively intimate confines of Merkin Hall. Perhaps the most impressive tune of the set was Fats Waller's "Jitterbug Waltz". Kuhn put this piece through a kaleidoscopic array of tempo changes, presenting the dance in traditional incarnations as well as treating it to more modern reconstructions. Finck and Washington were unstinting in their support, facing the many metric hurdles with verve and ingenuity.
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Steve Hamilton, Scottish Jazz Pianist & Composer Web Site Jazz Orch Henry s Cellar Bar, Edinburgh Apr 22 - steve Hamilton Trio David s hall,Cardiff May 06 - Earthworks with Underground Orchestra - Norwich Festival http://www.stevehamilton.com/tour.html
Essay About The Late Michel Petrucciani By Steve Voce The thenvirtuoso trumpeter Freddie Hubbard invited the pianist to join his All Starband and In 1986 he recorded at Montreux with Shorter and hall. steve VOCE. http://www.jazzpages.com/txtext/petrucciani_voce.htm
Extractions: "My philosophy," said Michel Petrucciani, "is to have a really good time and never to let anything stop me from doing what I want to do." Nothing unusual about that, one might think. But since Petrucciani was an adult standing only three feet high and weighing 65 pounds, one might expect his ambitions to have been, so to speak, closer to the ground. But, had he not aspired to achievements above his station, he might have chosen to play something more convenient such as the harmonica rather than the piano. Had he done so music would have missed one of the most powerful jazz pianists of the last two decades. One of the many remarkable things about Petrucciani was not so much the fact that when he played he overcame his handicaps, but that one was not aware of their existence. He could do anything and more than most of the best players of the day. He played across the full span of the grand piano's keyboard and, despite his tiny legs, was able to make full use of the instrument's pedals - the loud one was of particular importance to him. He was one of the most passionate and extrovert of soloists and the aggressive hurdling of his up-tempo work established an exciting bond with his audience that pushed aside any thought that he might deserve sympathy. He certainly never looked for it.
_The Carnegie Hall Concert_ ending with the absolutely unbelievable solo of pianist Jess Stacy steve and I attendedthe New Columbia Swing of Benny Goodman s 1938 Carnegie hall Concert at http://www.jitterbuzz.com/carcon.html
Extractions: Dancing in the Aisles! Why is the 1938 Carnegie Hall Concert so Important? The idea to present the Goodman band in concert at Carnegie Hall began as a publicity stunt by Wynn Nathanson, Goodman's publicist. At that time, Carnegie Hall was a bastion of musical propriety, or as John McDonough put it "An import house of Old World traditions where snobby smirks toward American culture had a way of making status-sensitive Yankees feel like Babbits for comparing Gershwin to Wagner or Tatum to Horowitz." Benny Goodman was initially hesitant about the concert, fearing for the worst; however, when his film Hollywood Hotel The concert was a sellout weeks in advance; 2760 seats sold at the astoundingly high price of $2.75 (or about $43 in 1998 dollars). An unusual footnote to the event was that it was picketed by pro-Franco (i.e. Fascist) opponents of Goodman's support for the Spanish Republican government. Briefly, "Twenty Years of Jazz" was good; the jam session laid an egg, but works by the Trio and the Sextet took off. "Swingtime in the Rockies", "Bei Mir Bist du Shoen", "Stompin at the Savoy", "China Boy", and "Dizzy Spells" built the enthusiasm. The finale, "Sing, Sing, Sing" blew the roof off the house, ending with the absolutely unbelievable solo of pianist Jess Stacy. Benny Goodman eventually came into possession of the acetates. Because Goodman had used musicians from a variety of bands, contract difficulties made it virtually impossible to issue a recording. Everything faded from view until about 1950 when the acetates were discovered in (of all things) his sister-in-law's house. Needless to say, the quality had degraded even further. With heroic engineering, it was possible to restore about 75% of the concert. The re-engineered version was issued in 1950 and became one of the first of the 33-1/3 rpm long play records to sell over a million copies. A rework of this recording is available on CD. In early January of 1998, it was announced that the aluminum studio masters had been rediscovered, allowing the entire concert to be reproduced with much better fidelity.
American Composers Orchestra -October 8, 2003 - Carnegie Hall 8, 2003 at 8pm at Carnegie hall, with a steve Reichs Different Trains was originallyscored for pieces owe their titles to composer/pianist Louis Moreau http://www.americancomposers.org/rel20031008.htm
NEC Releases Additional Details About Centennial Friday Concert in NECs Jordan hall The Best Ran Blake, steve Lacy, and GeorgeRussell of the Luciana Souza with John Lockwood, bass pianist Ran Blake http://www.newenglandconservatory.edu/whatsnew/releases03-04/additionalcentennia
Extractions: Features four MacArthur Fellows, all of whom are either NEC faculty or alumni, in exclusive pairings and combos: Performances by saxophonist Steve Lacy; pianist Ran Blake; pianist Cecil Taylor; and the music of George Russell performed by the NEC Jazz Orchestra. Conductor Herb Pomeroy will also be featured in this all-star concert as will NEC faculty members saxophonist Allan Chase, vocalist Dominique Eade, trombonist Bob Brookmeyer, and the following New England Conservatory alumni: pianist John Medeski, vocalist Luciana Souza, saxophonist Ricky Ford, drummer Harvey Mason, and conductor Carl Atkins. Saturday, October 25, 8:00 p.m. Gunther Schuller Meets the Stars of Tomorrow
Cantaloupe Music: Child Lisa Moore has been the pianist/keyboardist for in the 1981 Carnegie hall InternationalAmerican Luke s Orchestra, Cassatt String Quartet, steve Reich Ensemble http://www.cantaloupemusic.com/CA21014.html
Extractions: The first woman to record Frederic Rzewsi's setting of Oscar Wilde's "De Profundis," Bang on a Can/Steve Reich pianist Lisa Moore sheds powerful new light on Wilde's jailhouse meditation on imprisonment, debasement, and the barriers that he faced as a homosexual. Rzewski, one of the great revolutionary American composers, has created an aggressively emotional soundtrack to Wilde's moving prose. "De Profundis" breaks down the boundaries between a piano recital and a theatrical experience. Written for a virtuosic pianist who also sings, shouts, and declaims, Rzewski's masterpiece is given a gripping re-interpretation by the fiery Moore, who brings a new character to the work through her passionate piano performance and compelling voice. "Lisa Moore gave a startlingly good performance: she was lustrous at the keyboard, and at once engaging and challenging." Rzewski's 'De Profundis' (1992) for speaking pianist could be described as a melodramatic oratorio in which eight sections are preceded by eight instrumental preludes. It is a 30 minute composition for piano solo in which the pianist recites text excerpted from Oscar Wilde's letter (De Profundis) to Lord Alfred Douglas ('Bosie'), written during the author's imprisonment in Reading Gaol. The original text is an 80-page 'love letter'. It was never sent to Bosie for fear that he would destroy it, but was eventually read out in court to him in a later trial.
Talkin' Broadway - Cabaret Interview With Steve Ross I also like Ann Hampton Callaway, Carol hall She s a jazz stride pianist in thestyle of Fats Waller. it would be fun to do an album of steve Ross and his http://www.talkinbroadway.com/cabaret/ross.html
Extractions: by Jonathan Frank Jonathan: Welcome to Talkin' Broadway, Steve. At the time of this interview, you are about to wrap up the week long Cabaret Convention in New York. What did you perform yesterday at the Convention? Steve: Everybody was doing songs sung by Mabel Mercer, so I told my story and performed a Bart Howard song, and did "These Foolish Things." The big surprise last night was Polly Bergen, who made a stunning comeback. J: I'm not familiar with her, I'm afraid ... S: She was a star in the '50s and then laid low for many years before starting to perform again recently. She's going to be in the new production of Follies. J: That's right! Now I remember ... Cabaret Scenes did a big article on her in their October issue. But this isn't about Mabel or Polly; it's about you! You're doing a show at The Firebird that runs through December 2nd. Is there a theme? S: No. I'm doing a rather mixed show that actually contains a lot of Kander and Ebb songs in it. While I was putting together the show, I realized that I knew a lot of their songs and had always wanted to perform them, so ...
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Inside Binghamton University Soprano Sonia Theodoridou, pianist Janis Vakarelis and violinist Dimitris A Journeyin Latin Jazz steve Brown and A Latin beat will fill the hall as guitarist http://inside.binghamton.edu/September-October/2sept99/music.html
Extractions: As part of the University-wide Homage to Greece: A Celebration of Hellenic Culture, the Binghamton University Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Timothy Perry, presents a gala evening of classical masterworks, as well as compositions by Greek composers, with three internationally renowned soloists from Greece making their American debuts. Soprano Sonia Theodoridou, pianist Janis Vakarelis and violinist Dimitris Semsis join the orchestra in a program of works by Haydn, Rossini, Rachmaninoff, Hadjidakis and others.
Inside Binghamton University pianist Michael Holober returns to Binghamton to perform with Eidem, Pete McGuinness,Jeff Nelson and steve Armour 15 pm Friday, October 25 Chamber hall A prize http://inside.binghamton.edu/September-October/Sept-5-96/OnTap.html
Extractions: Malcolm Bilson has been in the forefront of the period instrument movement for more than two decades. His worldwide performances of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven on repli cas and original five-octave late-18th-century pianos have been the impetus for the return of the fortepiano to the concert stage. 20th Century Classics: Chamber Music New, Newer, and Newest
Carbon: Concerts 1987 comic opera Benjamin were sung by Stephen Kalm, Constance Beavon and Tonya Currier,accompanied by clarinetist Doris hallGulati and pianist steve Graff. http://www.johncarbon.com/concerts.html
Extractions: The festival features 3-4 concerts of American chamber music, and three Carbon works will be performed during the course of the festival: Icarus, for solo piano, Ghost Town Sketches, for Clarinet, Viola and Piano, and Time Out of Mind, for solo piano. Performers will include the Rainer Quartet (Ron Patterson, Ella Marie Gray, Roxanna Patterson, Walter Gray), Edith Orloff, piano, and David Peck, clarinet. Further details will appear on this site in the near future. Selected Previous Performances
