Gerald Clayton, son of bassist John Clayton, is the pianist in the world-traveled Clayton Brothers Quartet.
It features trombonist Steve Davis soloing before the pianist tackles his own congeries of chord changes.
Leonard Cohen's desperate tale, "Seems So Long Ago Nancy, " resonates with the pianist.
He came to prominence as the pianist in John Coltrane's early-'60s Classic Quartet.
"The Pianist" also was awarded the Cannes film festival's Palm d'Or last year.
Furrowing his brow as he becomes more reflective, the pianist suggests that growing older plays an inevitable part, too.
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He struck me as one of those handsome bald men, like the actor Michel Piccoli or the pianist Richter.
This year's festival is due to feature the pianist and BBC presenter Jools Holland and young jazz star Jamie Cullum.
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Barron was also the pianist on Stan Getz's last album just the two of them on People Time.
The pianist learned the First Concerto as an adolescent, but his esteem for it has deepened considerably over the years.
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You also hear bassist Eddie Gomez and newly arrived drummer Marty Morell working to jell around the pianist's conversational playing style.
In 1978 the pianist continued to perform for four more years to honor commitments, thenbegan a nine-year hiatus from the stage.
Mr. Pollini's father was a noted architect, and some observers have linked his vocation with the pianist's much-lauded grasp of musical structure.
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His Oscar for directing 2002 film The Pianist was collected by Harrison Ford, who had previously starred in his 1988 thriller, Frantic.
As distinct from traditional "comping" in jazz, where the pianist and the chords follow the soloist around like a private eye, Messrs.
Away from Brubeck he rarely played any of the pianist's countless compositions.
Polanski, whose films include Rosemary's Baby and The Pianist, was moved from prison and placed under house arrest at Gstaad in early December.
He won best actor for 2004's The Pianist and ranked on our payback list because of his work in the blockbuster King Kong.
The bass player Garry Tallent, the organist Charlie Giordano, and the pianist Roy Bittan horsed around on a roller-rink tune while they waited.
Lo these many years later, Private Collection, a set of Carnegie Hall performances from 1948 and '49, showcases the pianist's impressive gifts at mid-career.
In October, the composer Derek Bermel and the pianist Stephen Gosling curated a nine-day festival called SONiC, devoted to composers aged forty and under.
Breton musicians with classical training such as Alan Stivell, the harpist, or Didier Squiban, the pianist, play in a sophisticated style of their own.
"In a way, it begins in the middle, " the pianist says.
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Currently, he's in the midst of a 3-year appointment as Artistic Partner with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, and he's the Pianist-in-Residence at the Berlin Philharmonic.
After failing to persuade the pianist, Gelb, having already dispatched his family to Western Europe, got on a plane himself, leaving Horowitz to his own devices.
The pianist joined Liane Hansen in the studio to discuss Liszt's Concerto No. 1, which is on his latest album, Chopin Liszt Piano Concerto No. 1.
For the pianist using today's grand piano, as opposed to the composer's more delicate instrument, there are challenges in rendering this music as Beethoven might have wanted.
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At the height of the Cold War, the win by the pianist who grew up in Texas helped thaw the icy rivalry between the United States and Soviet Union.
The judge on Monday gave Mr. Say a 10-month jail sentence but suspended it by five years, meaning the pianist won't be jailed if he doesn't repeat the offense within that period.
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