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Piano Jazz for February 08, 2007
1:05 PM - 2:00 PM
[Program Website]
Today's Highlight: "Ellen Seeling"
The Montclair Women's Big Band keeps the jazz ensemble tradition alive and swinging in the San Francisco Bay area. Trumpeter and veteran bandleader Ellen Seeling brings her tenor sax player and assistant director, Jean Fineberg, and the group's New York drummer, Allison Miller, to Piano Jazz, joining McPartland and bassist Gary Mazzaroppi for quintet versions of "Georgia" and "St. Thomas."
For over 20 remarkable years, jazz pianist Marian McPartland and her guests have teamed up for an hour of weekly jazz sessions. Whether it's solos, collaboration, reminiscences, or straight talk about influences and style, no two Piano Jazz sessions are ever the same.
More than 500 exciting, talented, jazz professionals (newcomers and all-time favorites) have joined Marian over the years. In fact, Piano Jazz, a production of South Carolina Educational Radio, has been hailed as the "definitive" place to hear the greats of jazz.
Why? Piano Jazz hits a perfect balance between historical perspective and sheer entertainment, a formula that has made the series the longest-running national performance program on public radio.
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