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Piano Jazz for September 26, 2010
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
[Program Website]
Today's Highlight: "Marian Selects: Helen Merrill"
Vocalist Helen Merrill got her start singing with the Earl Hines Band and recorded an acclaimed album with Clifford Brown, Oscar Pettiford and Milt Hinton. She worked with other greats and lived in Italy and Japan before returning to the U.S. in the 1970s. On this 1995 Piano Jazz session, Merrill is joined by host Marian McPartland for duets on "Home on the Range" and "Don't Explain."
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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