Jazz piano is a collective term for the techniques pianists use when playing jazz. The piano has been an integral part of the jazz idiom since its inception...
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Piano Jazz is a weekly one-hour radio show produced and distributed by National Public Radio (NPR). It began on June 4, 1978, and was hosted by jazz pianist...
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Lady Gaga Enigma + Jazz & Piano is a concert residency by American singer-songwriter Lady Gaga held at Dolby Live in the Las Vegas Valley, Nevada. The...
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Ellington, Mercer (24 April 2011) [1994]. "Mercer Ellington On Piano Jazz". Piano Jazz (Interview). Interviewed by Marian McPartland. 13:50. Retrieved...
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having a family member play a simplified version. The piano is widely employed in classical, jazz, traditional and popular music for solo and ensemble...
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March 2020. Jazz portal Music portal United States portal Jazz (Henri Matisse) Jazz piano Jazz royalty Victorian Jazz Archive Hogan Jazz Archive International...
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Stride (music) (redirect from Stride piano)
Stride jazz piano, often shortened to stride, is a jazz piano style that arose from ragtime players. Prominent stride pianists include James P. Johnson...
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The Jazz Piano Book is a method book written by Mark Levine. It was first published on January 1, 1989. It aims to summarise the musical theory, including...
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substitute for these. A jazz fusion band is less likely to use piano and double bass, and more likely to use electric guitar, electric piano, synthesizers, and...
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Marian McPartland (category American jazz pianists)
2013), was an English–American jazz pianist, composer, and writer. She was the host of Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz on National Public Radio from 1978...
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Bebop (redirect from Modern Jazz)
Bebop or bop is a style of jazz developed in the early to mid-1940s in the United States. The style features compositions characterized by a fast tempo...
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Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano (aka Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano Trio) is a "crossover" composition by the jazz pianist and composer Claude Bolling...
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Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz with Steely Dan is a jazz album released in 2005. The album comprises music and conversation recorded during a 2002 visit...
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"Maple Leaf Rag" and "The Entertainer". Ragtime influenced early jazz, Harlem stride piano, Piedmont blues, and European classical composers such as Erik...
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The Köln Concert (category Solo piano jazz albums)
later that year. It is the best-selling solo album in jazz history and the best-selling piano album. The concert was organized by 18-year-old Vera Brandes...
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Piano Jazz, Piano Jazz: McPartland/Costello or Maria McPartland's Piano Jazz(2005) is an album by Marian McPartland, in collaboration with Elvis Costello...
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Oscar Peterson (category 20th-century jazz composers)
neighbourhood that he encountered the jazz culture. At the age of five, Peterson began honing his skills on trumpet and piano, but a bout of tuberculosis when...
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Mingus Plays Piano is a 1964 solo jazz album by Charles Mingus. The album is notable for Mingus's departure from his usual role as composer and double-bassist...
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Bill Evans (category American jazz bandleaders)
Post-Bop Jazz Piano. Hal Leonard. p. 24. ISBN 0-634-06123-2. Forte 2000. Valerio 2005, p. 40. Pamies (2021). "Deconstructing Modal Jazz Piano Techniques:...
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Keith Jarrett (category 20th-century jazz composers)
released in 1975, is the best-selling piano recording in history. In 2008, he was inducted into DownBeat Jazz Hall of Fame in the magazine's 73rd Annual...
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Paris Jazz Piano is a studio album by jazz pianist Michel Legrand, released in 1960 on Philips Records. "Sous les ponts de Paris" (Jean Rodor, Scotto)...
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Tigran Hamasyan (category Armenian jazz pianists)
family's piano, and he went to a music school from the age of six. As a young child, he dreamed of being a thrash metal guitarist. He studied jazz from the...
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Ahmad Jamal (category African-American jazz pianists)
Tradition of Small-Group Jazz." The New York Times, November 11, 2001: A27. Print. "Ahmad Jamal On Piano Jazz". Piano Jazz with Marian McPartland. NPR...
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– piano Kelman, John (3 March 2014) "Abdullah Ibrahim: African Piano". AllAboutJazz. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (1992). The Penguin Guide to Jazz on...
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Jazz Piano Lineage is a solo album by pianist Andy LaVerne recorded in 1988 and released on the DMP label. Scott Yanow of AllMusic stated "On this very...
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mass production of the Rhodes piano in the 1970s, and it was used extensively through the decade, particularly in jazz, pop, and soul music. It was less...
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Piano Improvisations Vol. 1 is a studio album (and first solo piano album) by American jazz pianist Chick Corea, recorded over two days in April 1971...
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Nala Sinephro (category Belgian jazz bandleaders)
forest. Her Belgian mother was a classical piano teacher and her Martiniquan/Guadeloupean father was a jazz saxophonist. During her teenage years, Sinephro...
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Trad jazz, short for "traditional jazz", is a form of jazz in the United States and Britain that flourished from the 1930s to 1960s, based on the earlier...
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Donald Fagen (category Jazz-rock pianists)
see performances by jazz musicians Charles Mingus, Sonny Rollins, Thelonious Monk, and Miles Davis. He learned to play the piano, and he played baritone...
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