Marian McPartland Celebration

[Hardbopjazz]

You can watch it here.

http://www.npr.org/event/music/375761234/remembering-marian-mcpartland-a-celebration?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=jazz&utm_term=music&utm_content=20150114

[sgcim]

Thanks!

I went to her estate sale over the summer in Port Washington, and came out with a very rare Herb Ellis LP.

The rumors that I also bought a number of her dresses was untrue; probably started by a number of my enemies trying to destroy my street cred....

A sax player friend of mine, Jimmy Miller, bought her huge, tape deck. and needed help carrying it to his car. He was ecstatic about the sound of it.

RIP MM

[felser]

Marvelous woman and marvelous musician. Saw her on a bill with McCoy Tyner at the Keswick Theater when she was pushing 75, and she held her own just fine and had some glorious duets with him at the end.

http://articles.philly.com/1993-04-19/entertainment/25981465_1_marian-mcpartland-mccoy-tyner-twilight-world

From the article:

And he fashioned some sweet duets with the charming Marian McPartland, who performed her own solo set before Tyner's and shared the bill with him at the nearly full theater.

Tyner displayed a virtuosity and a generosity of spirit that reverberated along with the music. He entered with his massive shoulders in a gray jacket and his hair drawn back in a ponytail.

He worked over every tune with dynamics that ranged from deafening washes of sound to telltale plinks of ivory magic.

One measure of his performance was the length of time between the end of a tune and the start of the audience's applause. Long seconds elapsed before the spectators could return from the Tyner-sphere.

That Tyner would play with McPartland, as they did at the concert's end, would surprise many. McPartland belongs to a far earlier, swing generation, yet that stylistic gulf didn't matter a whit.

She and Tyner lined up their pianos soundboard to soundboard, and he melded his sound with hers over four tunes, including his own "Passion Dance," and produced some tender moments.

McPartland, who led off with a set of pleasant standards, including her own ''Twilight World," has good technique for any age.

But she sounded finer with Tyner.

[Milestones]

I remember hearing Tyner as a guest on her radio show. They seemed to have a lot of fun together. At one point, though, she was trying to get the hang of a Tyner piece (maybe "Fly with the Wind"), and she stopped and said, "I think I need to go home and practice."

[Teasing the Korean]

This is a favorite party album. I love the Wurlitzer electric piano on some of the tunes: