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LETTERS
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Mystery Piece The mystery piece in the Spring issue was Erik Satie's Little Overture for a Dancer. The five correct answers chosen at random for a free 1-year subscription renewal are: Bruce Hunter of Apple Valley, CA ("Thank you for continuing to publish this magazine. Piano Today is my ...
DAVE BRUBECK: No Time To Take Five
Jul 01, 2008; Salmon, John; Brubeck, Dave; Brubeck, Iola; Isacoff, Stuart ... Dave Brubeck turns 88 on December sixth. Some would say he has earned the right to retire or take it easy. But this has been one of his busiest years yet, with dozens of concerts in the United States and Canada, recording sessions with his cellist son Matthew and Yo Yo Ma, and completion of a ...
It's A Jungle Out There
Jul 01, 2008; Smith, Joseph ... The Jungle Books of Rudyard Kipling (1894 and 95) are as strange as they are compelling. The two volumes are a loose collection of stories and poems united by a single theme-the struggle for survival in an extreme climate, whether the jungle or the Arctic. Kipling reminds us that all characters ...
Marc Neikrug
Jul 01, 2008; Isacoff, Stuart ... Composer and pianist Marc Neikrug's fortunes seem to have been fixed from the start. "My father was a great cellist," he reveals. "His is still the best recording, I think, of Bloch's Shelomo, with Stokowski conducting. My mother was also a cellist. She played for the Czar of Russia when she was ...
DAVE BRUBECK'S Remembrance of Madeleine Milhaud
Jul 01, 2008; Salmon, John ... Madeleine Milhaud died January 17th, 2008, just two months shy of what would have been her 106th birthday. Wife of Les six composer Darius Milhaud, whom she had married in 1925, she was a talented actress, and at the epicenter of French musical life for most of the twentieth century. Her ...
The Jazz Tetrachord Approach To Improvisation: PART I
Jul 01, 2008; Evans, Lee ... One of the earliest and most important books to subject jazz to serious critical analysis was Winthrop Sargeant's Jazz: Hot and Hybrid (third edition published by Da Capo Press). One particular aspect of this book forms the foundation of this Piano Today article, which might serve as the basis ...
Journey to Joyous Lake
Jul 01, 2008; LaVerne, Andy ... Gospel music has a rich legacy, and is an integral part of the roots of Jazz. Two Jazz tunes that reflect a strong Gospel influence are Phineas Newborn Jr.'s Harlem Blues, and Dr. Billy Taylor's I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free. Both of these tunes had a strong influence on my own ...
Chromaticizing The Blues
Jul 01, 2008; Keys, Preston ... Early in my career, when listening to a certain blues, I was simply awestruck by the reharmonization that had been applied to this basic progression. The arranger had made only slight harmonic variations, adding three chromatic chords, but this modification opened the door for me to a whole new ...