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Robin Meloy Goldsby On Piano Jazz

By Jazz on January 30, 2009

The pianist spent much of her career in a seldom-considered corner of the music business: She’s made a living playing in bars, lounges, nightclubs and hotel lobbies. It’s recounted in her memoir Piano Girl, and on this episode of Piano Jazz.

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Hod O’Brien On Piano Jazz

By Jazz on January 23, 2009

Pianist Hod O’Brien is a stalwart bebop acolyte. Since emerging on the scene in the late 1950s playing with Oscar Pettiford and Stan Getz, O’Brien has earned critical acclaim and accolades from his peers. He joins host Marian McPartland and performs an original tune written for the occasion, “Clarion for Marian.”

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Hod O’Brien On Piano Jazz

By Jazz on January 23, 2009

Pianist Hod O’Brien is a stalwart bebop acolyte. Since emerging on the scene in the late 1950s playing with Oscar Pettiford and Stan Getz, O’Brien has earned critical acclaim and accolades from his peers. He joins host Marian McPartland and performs an original tune written for the occasion, “Clarion for Marian.”

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Hod O’Brien On Piano Jazz

By Jazz on January 23, 2009

Pianist Hod O’Brien is a stalwart bebop acolyte. Since emerging on the scene in the late 1950s playing with Oscar Pettiford and Stan Getz, O’Brien has earned critical acclaim and accolades from his peers. He joins host Marian McPartland and performs an original tune written for the occasion, “Clarion for Marian.”

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David (Fathead) Newman, Saxophonist, Dies at 75

By By BEN RATLIFF on January 23, 2009

Mr. Newman was a soft-spoken, sweet-toned jazz and rhythm-and-blues saxophonist who made his name in Ray Charles’s bands from the 1950s to the early ’70s.

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Ed Reed On Piano Jazz

By Jazz on January 16, 2009

Reed is relatively new to the national jazz scene, but he’s been singing for more than 50 years. After a life of addiction and incarceration, Reed has emerged triumphant, ready for his moment in the spotlight. With accompanist Gary Fisher, Reed performs “Sleeping Bee” and “Ask Me Now” before he and host Marian McPartland get together on Ellington’s “All Too Soon.”

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John Pizzarelli On Piano Jazz

By Jazz on January 9, 2009

If classic jazz has a contemporary voice, it’s that of guitarist, vocalist and bandleader John Pizzarelli. He’s fashioned an ultra-cool style that’s both modern and rooted in the jazz tradition. Here, the John Pizzarelli Trio swings on “Here Comes the Sun” before Pizzarelli and McPartland perform “In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning.”

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