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Piano Jazz for May 16, 2010
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
[Program Website]
Today's Highlight: "Kurt Elling"
Composer, poet and vocalist Kurt Elling has set the new standard for jazz singing, and has been rewarded with a 2010 Grammy for Best Jazz Vocal Album. His commanding, richly grained baritone voice is the perfect vehicle for jazz songs, whether reworked classics or his original compositions. Fusing jazz and poetry, Elling performs a series of Ornette Coleman poems with a freeform accompaniment by McPartland
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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