Tag: piano
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RIP Dave Brubeck
News just in that Dave Brubeck passed away at 91 My first exposure to the music I came to know as “jazz” was listening to my dad’s Dave Brubeck records. I listened to them side-by-side with the soundtrack to South Pacific, Bill Cosby, Bluegrass, 60’s folkies, Bird with Strings, Jimmy Smith, etc… basically rummaging through…
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File Under “Coincidence”
After composing the previous post I opened up a Cecil Taylor CD (Trance), lent to me by my friend Peter Riccio. I read the liner notes, written by Erik Wiedemann in 1963… As I got to the end I could not help but laugh: “If a man plays for a certain amount of time –…
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