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Piano Jazz for February 07, 2008
1:05 PM - 2:00 PM
[Program Website]
Today's Highlight: "Hiromi"
Hiromi Uehara is a brilliant young pianist from Japan, by way of Berklee College of Music. Her exciting mixture of musical genres and high-energy playing is made even more thrilling by her amazing technique and complex ideas. She demonstrates her original approach with her own composition, "The Tom and Jerry Show," a frenetic tune inspired by the famous cartoon.
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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