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Yvettep
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Posted on Tuesday, November 13, 2007 - 02:45 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Two new finds for me: the program "Jazz Set with Dee Dee Bridgewater" and pianist Kenny Barron. Enjoy this wonderful concert!

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16114989

JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater, November 8, 2007 - Talk about sophisticated. We're at the 2007 JVC Jazz Festival in the Allen Room of the Frederick P. Rose Theatre, overlooking Central Park and the New York City skyline. Onstage, there are two Steinways and in the wings wait two elegant pianists.

Dizzy Gillespie hired Kenny Barron from Philadelphia in 1962, and kept him for five years. Later, Barron co-founded the quartet Sphere, dedicated to Thelonious Monk's music. With others and alone, Kenny Barron's relaxed style belies his ability to stir up a holy storm at the keys. He begins solo, with an up-tempo "Getting Sentimental over You" from the 1940s, then adds the trio for an Irving Berlin ballad and Barron's own blues. So far, so smooth.

Barron laconically introduces Eliane Elias, who arrives at the second piano with mischief in her eyes, to fast-trade phrases at a flying-home tempo on "The Way You Look Tonight."

Elias comes to jazz from Brazil. When she was still in her teens, the bossa nova composer Antonio Carlos Jobim recognized her talent, and she in turn became one of the best performers of his music...




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Cynique
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Posted on Tuesday, November 13, 2007 - 11:19 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

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Ntfs_encryption
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Posted on Thursday, November 15, 2007 - 08:30 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Thanks for the post Ms. Yvettep. I really appreciate you updating us on the NPR music nuggets. It's nice to see someone who enjoys serious creative improvised music.

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