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...Eckstine's band. He had all the great players - Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, anyone you can mention probably went through that band. The drummer was Art Blakey. When I was still at home and 18 years old, I had the opportunity to play with Billie Holiday. She had a pianist who was going to college in Washington, and he formed a little quartet when she came to town...
...bustling Chicago music scene, there was so much more to hear and play. In the morning he was hillbilly, and at night he was playing jazz with Roy Eldridge, Coleman Hawkins, Nat Cole and Art Tatum. He cut his first records in 1936, backing blues singer-pianist Georgia White as she belted out Andy Razaf's raunchy threat, "If I can't sell it, I'll keep sittin' on it, before I give it away." A year later, he formed his first trio, with bass player Ernie Newton and rhythm guitarist Jim Atkins (the elder half brother of Chet Atkins...
Joel had a tough act to follow in his solo portion of the set, and he rose to the occasion. While his pianist and showman skills can’t rival John’s, you'd be hard-pressed to find a better opening number than "Angry Young Man," in which Joel exploded through the pitch black in a burst of light and fury, maniacally pounding the keys as he announced his arrival. But flashiness isn’t Joel’s game. Unlike the aristocratic Elton, whose immense individual skill outshines everything else in the stadium, Billy?...
...Russian pianist Lev Vlasenko dazzled Harvard students with his smooth piano playing in a dimly lit Adams House Common room, the political tension between the virtuoso’s native USSR and the United States was hardly visible. At the informal concert, the students seemed to forget that their respective countries were at war and simply delighted in each other’s company. In 1959, when the Cold War was at its pinnacle, and the relationship between the U.S. and the USSR was frigid at best, a team of 12 Soviet delegates came to Harvard as part...
...pushing us to listen across the group and improvise instead of just playing what’s on the page... [H]e has helped to make our music a lot more exciting to play and fun to hear.” Julie A. Duncan ’09, a pianist-turned-trombonist, had never had any experience with playing Dixieland, jazz, or any type of improvisational music before joining The Charles Riverboat Band. “I always refused to join jazz ensembles, because I was terrified of improv…but the [band] has allowed me to take baby...