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Piano Jazz for October 11, 2007
1:05 PM - 2:00 PM
[Program Website]
Today's Highlight: "Nellie Lutcher"
In the 1940s and 50s, a young performer named Nellie Lutcher burst onto the jazz, R&B, and pop charts with a lively scat-singing style and a percussive approach to the piano. The jazz world lost Lutcher in 2007. In a tribute to her life, Piano Jazz features a program with Lutcher playing and singing two of her most popular songs, "Hurry on Down" and "Real Gone Guy." McPartland joins in for "I've Got a Right to Sing the Blues."
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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