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Piano Jazz for December 20, 2007
1:05 PM - 2:00 PM
[Program Website]
Today's Highlight: "Andrew Hill"
With his heady, bop-rooted explorations of improvised music, pianist and composer Andrew Hill pressed the boundaries of jazz and influenced a generation of players. Sadly, Hill passed away in 2007, but on this Piano Jazz from 2005, Hill demonstrated his mastery of melody, rhythm and technique on his own "Nickodemus," before joining McPartland for "A Nightingale Sang in Barkley Square."
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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