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Piano Ninja Tricks
From Amateur to Professional: Piano Tricks for Touch and Timing

Piano Ninja Tricks

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 7, 2024 15:27


Send us a textGrab my focused practice checklist ⬇️https://lisaspector.com/practiceIn this special election-eve episode of the Piano Ninja Tricks Podcast, host Lisa Spector demonstrates the subtle but vital differences that set professional pianists apart from amateurs: inner pulse and touch. Amid the uncertainty and stress of the moment, Lisa shares music that calms and centers, sharing the importance of an internal pulse and how the speed of pressing the keys impacts dynamics and control. Using examples from Marcello's Concerto Adagio arranged for piano by Earl Wild, Schubert's G Major Sonata and Chopin's C Minor Nocturne, Lisa guides listeners through tricks to refine their touch and maintain a steady inner pulse, helping pianists sound like a professional. This episode provides valuable insights to make your practice more effective and your playing more professional.Music opening and closing played by Lisa SpectorInstagram IG Broadcast Channel YouTubeFocused 20-Minute Practice Checklist Piano Ninja Tricksters ClubWebsitePodcast Art by Cindy Wyckoff at Design It Digital

The Piano Maven with Jed Distler
Earl Wild at 88, on the 88s

The Piano Maven with Jed Distler

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 23, 2024 5:26


Link to sellers: https://www.discogs.com/release/15895932-Earl-Wild-Earl-Wild-At-88-Recital

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Piano Ninja Tricks
Efficiency in Motion: Conquering "The Man I Love" Left-Handed

Piano Ninja Tricks

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2024 21:50


  Piano Ninja Tricks Podcasthttps://lisaspector.com/In Episode 20 of the Piano Ninja Tricks Podcast, Lisa Spector, your dedicated Piano Ninja, unveils the secrets behind mastering Gershwin's "The Man I Love," brilliantly arranged into a virtuoso etude for left hand by her Juilliard professor Earl Wild.Join Lisa on this musical journey as she shares the intricate Piano Ninja Tricks employed to conquer this challenging Virtuoso Etude. Discover the art of shaping phrases, efficient fingerings, and the nuances of voicing, all essential for transforming complexity into clarity.Best Free Piano Ninja Fingering Tricks ⬇️https://pianoninjatricks.com/Music opening and closing played by Lisa SpectorOpening: End of Chopin Etude Op. 10 No. 12 "Revolutionary"Closing: Beginning of Chopin Etude Op. 25 No. 2 in F minorInstagram IG Broadcast Channel YouTubeBest Free Piano Ninja Fingering TricksPiano Ninja Tricksters ClubWebsitePodcast Art by Cindy Wyckoff at Design It Digital

Piano Ninja Tricks
Celebrating American Composer Amy Beach: Tricks for Soft Inner Voices

Piano Ninja Tricks

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2024 19:37


  Piano Ninja Tricks Podcasthttps://LisaSpector.comAs we celebrate the July 4th holiday week, I invite you to join me for a special YouTube Live event, "Red, White, and Rhapsody in Blue," on Sunday night. I'll be playing Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, the enchanting Dreaming of Amy Beach, and virtuoso etudes by my Juilliard professor Earl Wild, including a left-hand-only arrangement of Gershwin's "The Man I Love."Sunday, July 7 at 5 Pacific / 8 Easternhttps://www.youtube.com/live/H63MJB3Pt2UIn this episode, I dive into Amy Beach's early work "Dreaming" from Opus 15 Sketches, sharing tricks on how to keep inner notes soft while bringing out the melody. We'll explore Beach's remarkable life and her groundbreaking contributions to American music. I'll demonstrate tricks for controlling inner voices and maintaining expressiveness in your playing. Join me as I prepare for our upcoming live performance and celebrate the rich legacy of American composers.Remember to tune in live for a chance to win great prizes and experience the full performance of "Dreaming", Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue and other American favorites. See you on YouTube Live and enjoy the beauty of this timeless music.Music opening and closing played by Lisa SpectorOpening: End of Chopin Etude Op. 10 No. 12 "Revolutionary"Closing: Beginning of Chopin Etude Op. 25 No. 2 in F minorInstagram IG Broadcast Channel YouTubeBest Free Piano Ninja Fingering TricksPiano Ninja Tricksters ClubWebsitePodcast Art by Cindy Wyckoff at Design It Digital

Le van Beethoven
Earl Wild, virtuose époustouflant et transcripteur inspiré

Le van Beethoven

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2023 58:35


durée : 00:58:35 - Earl Wild - Earl Wild est une figure légendaire du piano qui s'est produite dans le monde entier pendant plus de huit décennies. Virtuose exceptionnel et profondément musicien, ses transcriptions pour son instrument sont l'œuvre d'un réel compositeur.

Piano Ninja Tricks
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Piano Ninja Tricks

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 5, 2023 1:58 Transcription Available


The Piano Ninja Tricks Podcast is the best place to learn piano tricks to make your Bach, Beethoven and Chopin easier for you. Meet your host, Juilliard alum and Piano Ninja, Lisa Spector. She's sharing her treasured tricks honed through years of study with legendary mentors Earl Wild, Leon Fleisher, John Perry and Lillian Kallir. But here's the remarkable part: Lisa's journey to piano mastery was interrupted when an unexpected fall led to seven complicated right-hand fractures, resulting in four surgeries over several years. Her resilience and unique insights into her recovery when she was told she'd never play piano again will inspire you. If you're a classical pianist yearning to practice less and play more, you've found your musical oasis. Every Mindset Monday, Lisa delivers a Piano Pep Talk to supercharge your practice week. And on Technic Thursdays, she unveils a Piano Ninja Trick from the keys, ready for you to apply to your own music. Tune in, and you'll soon discover your inner Piano Ninja!Music opening and closing played by Lisa SpectorOpening: End of Chopin Etude Op. 10 No. 12 "Revolutionary"Closing: Beginning of Chopin Etude Op. 25 No. 2 in F minorInstagram IG Broadcast Channel YouTubeBest Free Piano Ninja Fingering TricksPiano Ninja Tricksters ClubWebsitePodcast Art by Cindy Wyckoff at Design It Digital

Portraits de famille
Earl Wild (2), génie de la transcription

Portraits de famille

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 12, 2022 118:09


durée : 01:58:09 - Earl Wild (2), génie de la transcription - par : Philippe Cassard - Earl Wild avait un répertoire considérable et très original (écouter le podcast de l'émission du 12 février 2022). Mais il aura surtout laissé une trace dans l'histoire de la transcription, sous ses doigts toujours brillante, subtile, charmeuse et d'un goût parfait. - réalisé par : Pierre Willer

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Classical Conversations
Kirill Gerstein: The Gershwin Moment

Classical Conversations

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 8, 2022


Renowned pianist (and Toledo favorite) Kirill Gerstein chats up his new album The Gershwin Moment – which features classics like Rhapsody in Blue alongside piano tributes by Earl Wild and Oscar Levant.

The Gramophone podcast
Martin James Bartlett on his new Gershwin and Rachmaninov album, 'Rhapsody'

The Gramophone podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 4, 2022 23:27


For his second album for Warner Classics, the pianist Martin James Bartlett brings together works by Gershwin and Rachmaninov, both solo and with orchestra. James Jolly met up with Martin to talk about the album, the connections it makes and his admiration for the work and playing of the American pianist Earl Wild. Gramophone Podcasts are given in association with Wigmore Hall.

Le van Beethoven
La Grande Pâque russe de Kirill Kondrachine, et Earl Wild le romantique

Le van Beethoven

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 4, 2021 58:12


durée : 00:58:12 - La Grande Pâque russe de Kiril Kondrachine et Earl Wild le romantique - par : Aurélie Moreau - Deux enregistrements du grand chef d'orchestre russe Kirill Kondrachine. Nous l'écouterons chez Chostakovtich et Rimski-Korsakov. Le dernier album du claveciniste Gustav Leonhardt, et Debussy joué par Martha Argerich, Stephen Kovacevich. Et le brillant Quatuor Hermès. - réalisé par : Adrien Roch

The Ricochet Audio Network Superfeed
Music For a While: Embraceability (#43)

The Ricochet Audio Network Superfeed

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 8, 2021


This episode ends with “Embraceable You,” the Gershwin song—but in a piano arrangement by Earl Wild. An extraordinary thing. The episode begins with some Bach—the same piece, more or less, two different ways. Jay also has some music by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, known by some as “the African Mahler.” There is a story, too, about French […]

Music For a While
43. Embraceability

Music For a While

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 8, 2021


This episode ends with “Embraceable You,” the Gershwin song—but in a piano arrangement by Earl Wild. An extraordinary thing. The episode begins with some Bach—the same piece, more or less, two different ways. Jay also has some music by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, known by some as “the African Mahler.” There is a story, too, about French horn playing. Does your pulse race when you have a big solo? You bet it does. Much to savor here. Bach, Prelude in E minor from Book I of “The Well-Tempered Clavier” Bach-Siloti, Prelude in B minor Coleridge-Taylor, Clarinet Quintet in F-sharp minor, Op. 10, first movement Dove, “Departure,” from “Airport Scenes” Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 5, slow movement Gershwin-Wild, “Embraceable You”

The New Criterion
Music for a While #43: Embraceability

The New Criterion

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 8, 2021 28:30


This episode ends with “Embraceable You,” the Gershwin song—but in a piano arrangement by Earl Wild. An extraordinary thing. The episode begins with some Bach—the same piece, more or less, two different ways. Jay also has some music by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, known by some as “the African Mahler.” There is a story, too, about French horn playing. Does your pulse race when you have a big solo? You bet it does. Much to savor here. Bach, Prelude in E minor from Book I of “The Well-Tempered Clavier” Bach-Siloti, Prelude in B minor Coleridge-Taylor, Clarinet Quintet in F-sharp minor, Op. 10, first movement Dove, “Departure,” from “Airport Scenes” Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 5, slow movement Gershwin-Wild, “Embraceable You”

En pistes ! L'actualité du disque classique
Escale en France pour le Brandenburger Symphoniker

En pistes ! L'actualité du disque classique

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 22, 2021 117:49


durée : 01:57:49 - En pistes ! du lundi 22 mars 2021 - par : Emilie Munera, Rodolphe Bruneau Boulmier - Sous la direction de Peter Gülke, l'orchestre enregistre la musique de Jacques Ibert. Mais aussi : le pianiste Vittorio Forte rend hommage au transcripteur Earl Wild, le premier album de Philippe Jaroussky réédité, de la musique française pour cor et piano par Alexandre Collard et Nicolas Royez. - réalisé par : Lionel Quantin

Off The Podium
Ep. 141: David Korevaar, "You can access the world, it's not easy to reach the world..."

Off The Podium

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 8, 2020 46:34


Ep. 141: David Korevaar, "You can access the world, it's not easy to reach the world..." Let's Talk Off The Podium with Tigran Arakelyan. In this episode Korevaar talks about his studies with Earl Wild and David Diamond, recordings, teachings and much more. Hailed for his “wonderfully warm, pliant, spontaneous playing” by the Washington Post, award winning pianist David Korevaar is in demand as a soloist, chamber musician and collaborator. Korevaar has performed and given master classes throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, and Central and South America. Recent highlights include recitals and master classes in Taipei, and a tour of Brazil, with recitals and master classes in São Paulo, Porto Alegre, Rio de Janeiro, João Pessoa, Recife and Natal. He has also concertized and given master classes in Kazakhstan and Tajikistan as part of the U.S. State Department’s Cultural Envoy program and taught at the Afghanistan National Institute of Music (ANIM) in Kabul. Korevaar’s active career includes solo performances with the Rochester Philharmonic, Colorado Symphony, Louisville Orchestra, Japan’s Shonan Chamber Orchestra, Brazil’s Goiania Symphony, and with acclaimed conductors Guillermo Figueroa, Per Brevig, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski and Jorge Mester. His performance of John Cage’s Concerto for Prepared Piano and Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Paul Zukofsky was praised by the New York Times “as admirably projected in the devoted and lovely performance of David Korevaar.” David was honored to work with Cage to prepare the concerto. © Let's Talk Off The Podium, 2020  

Arias and Songs | WFMT
A Program for Gay Pride Weekend

Arias and Songs | WFMT

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 27, 2020 58:34


For a special one-hour program beginning at 4:30pm, Larry showcases the talents of gay composers Gian Carlo Menotti, Reynaldo Hahn, and Michael Tippett. Also featured are Peter Pears, Nathan Lane, Josephine Baker, Donald Gramm, and pianists, Earl Wild, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, and more. The post A Program for Gay Pride Weekend appeared first on WFMT.

Relax !
Portrait d'Earl Wild, Elisabeth Leonskaja à Paris, Arthur Rubinstein joue Chopin

Relax !

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 31, 2020 118:53


durée : 01:58:53 - Relax ! du vendredi 31 janvier 2020 - par : Lionel Esparza - Petit portrait du pianiste américain Earl Wild, disparu il y a dix ans. Il est resté célèbre pour ses transcriptions d'airs de Gershwin, et pour ses nombreuses apparitions sur les chaînes de télévision américaines. Et notre légende du jour est la version des Mazurkas de Chopin par Arthur Rubinstein. - réalisé par : Antoine Courtin

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Arias and Songs | WFMT
A Program for Gay Pride Weekend

Arias and Songs | WFMT

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 29, 2019 58:34


For a special one-hour program beginning at 4:30pm, Larry showcases the talents of gay composers Gian Carlo Menotti, Reynaldo Hahn, and Michael Tippett. Also featured are Peter Pears, Nathan Lane, Josephine Baker, Donald Gramm, and pianists, Earl Wild, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, and more. The post A Program for Gay Pride Weekend appeared first on WFMT.

Classical Conversations
Kirill Gerstein: The Gershwin Moment

Classical Conversations

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 9, 2018


Renowned pianist (and Toledo favorite) Kirill Gerstein chats up his new album The Gershwin Moment – which features classics like Rhapsody in Blue alongside piano tributes by Earl Wild and Oscar Levant.

Classical Conversations
Kirill Gerstein: The Gershwin Moment

Classical Conversations

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 9, 2018


Renowned pianist (and Toledo favorite) Kirill Gerstein chats up his new album The Gershwin Moment – which features classics like Rhapsody in Blue alongside piano tributes by Earl Wild and Oscar Levant.

Fishko Files from WNYC
Rachmaninoff

Fishko Files from WNYC

Play Episode Listen Later May 24, 2018 7:06


The Russian-born composer Sergei Rachmaninoff died in the spring of 1943, 75 years ago, in Beverly Hills. In this archival edition of Fishko Files, three concert pianists celebrate the beauty and the alarming technical difficulty of this Russian musician's compositions - as well as his own spellbinding piano playing. With Ruth Laredo, Earl Wild, and Misha Dichter. (Produced in 2001) Fishko Files with Sara Fishko Assistant Producer: Olivia BrileyMix Engineer: Wayne ShulmisterEditor: Karen Frillmann

Saturday Classics
Rob's Gold Standard

Saturday Classics

Play Episode Listen Later May 21, 2016 28:45


Rob Cowan mines the archive for great recordings, forgotten musical heroes and repertory adventures Rob Cowan's selection of music includes Wilhelm Furtwängler conducting Beethoven's Grosse Fuge, violinist Arthur Grumiaux playing Saint-Saëns's Introduction and Rondo capriccioso and Aaron Copland conducting his own compact, dazzling Piano Concerto with soloist Earl Wild.

A Day in the Life
Earl Wild: "A Classical Day in the Life" for November 26, 2015

A Day in the Life

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 26, 2015 2:00


Today in 1915, American piano virtuoso Earl Wild was born.  A renowned interpreter of Rhapsody in Blue, he also pioneered live broadcasting--both on television and online.  Find out more on today's "A Day in the Life."

Relevant Tones
Jenny Lin

Relevant Tones

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 11, 2015 58:22


Stunningly versatile pianist Jenny Lin has recorded with jazz musicians, rockers, contemporary composers and everyone in between. Equally comfortable playing Shostakovich on the same concert as giving a world premiere, Lin is a vital talent that is taking concert halls by storm. Hosted by Seth Boustead Produced by Jesse McQuarters George Gershwin: I Got Rhythm (excerpt) Earl Wild, arr. Jenny Lin, p. James Tenney: Chromatic Canon Lin, p. Arthur Kampela: Nosturnos (excerpt) Lin, p. Valentine Silvestrov: Sonata for Violin and Piano, Post Scriptum (excerpt) Cornelius Duffalo, violin; Jenny Lin, p. Elliot Sharp: Suberrebus (excerpt) Lin, p. David Wolfson: Sonata for Cello and Piano, IV Laura Bontrager, vc.; Jenny Lin, p. Claude Vivier: Shiraz Jenny Lin, p. William Bolcolm: Dream Shadows from Three Ghost Rags Lin, p.

Music From 100 Years Ago
Centennials 2015 Part 1

Music From 100 Years Ago

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 11, 2015 43:52


A tribute to musicians born in 1915. Performers include: Frank Sinatra, Una May Carlise, Les Paul, Alice Faye, Turk Murphy, Billy Strayhorn, Earl Wild, Al Hibbler & Memphis Slim. Music inclues: Begin the Beguine, Brazil, I'm Crazy Bout My Baby, Grandpa's Spells, Ther's a Lull In My Life, Every Day i Have the Blues and Rachmanioff's Prelude #5 Op 32.

Café Concerts
Café Concert: Jenny Lin

Café Concerts

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 25, 2014 17:24


An upright piano may not seem like the desired tool of a keyboard purist but Jenny Lin needed little rationalization for playing Igor Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite on the upright in the WQXR Café. Stravinsky himself was said to compose not at a concert grand, but "at a tacky-sounding and usually out-of-tune upright piano that has been muted and dampened with felt,” according to a onetime description by his wife, Vera Stravinsky. What’s more, Stravinsky’s teacher, Rimsky-Korsakov, advocated using uprights in orchestra works, arguing for their tinny, delicate sounds over thick, chordal opulence. The instrument may have also underscored the Russian folk sounds that characterize many of Stravinsky's early works. The Taiwan-born, New York-based Lin also plays Stravinsky on the big grands, something she has been doing a lot lately. Her newest album is a collection of a dozen of the composer's solo piano works, and while many of them aren’t so well known – perhaps lacking the surging passions or flamboyant calisthenics employed by other Russian composers – she believes they have much to admire and enjoy. "We really should know more about Stravinsky as a piano music composer because he composed a lot of the orchestra music on piano, and he was a very good pianist himself,” said Lin. Along with original solo piano pieces like the Sonata and the Serenade, there are some finger-twisting arrangements, notably Guido Agosti’s transcription of the Firebird Suite. Here Lin plays work’s the Danse infernale: Lin discovered Agosti’s Firebird transcription while studying in Italy as a teenager and that got her hooked on Stravinsky's work. “He's clever as a composer,” she noted. “He knows what gets an audience and can trigger the adrenaline.” While Lin’s concert repertoire includes the hefty concertos of Beethoven and Rachmaninoff, her discography tells of a more eclectic sensibility, spanning "InsomniMania," a collection of pieces inspired by nighttime dreams and anxieties, and "The Eleventh Finger,” devoted to complex modernists like Gyorgy Ligeti, Elliott Sharp and others. In the WQXR Café she also performed a selection from "Get Happy: Virtuoso Show Tunes for Piano.” The 2012 album featured arrangements of Broadway songs by such noted pianist-composers as André Previn, Stephen Hough, Marc-André Hamelin and Alexis Weissenberg. “One should not take these pieces very lightly,” said Lin. “I have to say, I thought that doing the Broadway arrangement project would easy because of the tunes but it was the hardest thing I’ve had to do, because every pianist just took the tune and went off with it.” Below is Lin’s performance of Gershwin’s Embraceable You, in an arrangement by the late Earl Wild: Video: Amy Pearl; Sound: Edward Haber; Text & Production: Brian Wise; Interview: Jeff Spurgeon

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SUBTLE VIRTUOSITYTo listen to program CLICK HEREIn 1951, Mr. Ahmad Jamal first recorded 'Ahmad's Blues' on Okeh Records. His arrangement of the folk tune 'Billy Boy', and 'Poinciana' (not his original composition), also stem from this period. In 1955, he recorded his first Argo (Chess) Records album that included 'New Rhumba', 'Excerpts From The Blues', 'Medley' (actually 'I Don't Want To Be Kissed'), and 'It Ain't Necessarily So' --all later utilized by Miles Davis and Gil Evans on the albums “Miles Ahead” and “Porgy and Bess.” In his autobiography, Mr. Davis praises Mr. Jamal's special artistic qualities and cites hisinfluence. In fact, the mid-to-late 1950's Miles Davis Quintet recordings notably feature material previously recorded by Mr. Jamal: 'Squeeze Me', 'It Could Happen To You', 'But Not For Me', 'Surrey With The Fringe On Top', 'Ahmad's Blues', 'On Green Dolphin Street' and 'Billy Boy'.In 1956, Mr. Jamal, who had already been joined by bassist Israel Crosby in 1955, replaced guitarist Ray Crawford with a drummer. Working as the “house trio” at Chicago's Pershing Hotel drummer Vernell Fournier joined this trio in 1958 and Mr. Jamal made a live album for Argo Records entitled “But Not For Me”. The resulting hit single and album, that also included 'Poinciana' -- his rendition could be considered his “signature”. This album remained on the Ten Best-selling charts for 108 weeks -- unprecedented then for a jazz album. This financial success enabled Mr. Jamal to realize a dream, and he opened a restaurant/club, The Alhambra, in Chicago. Here the Trio was able to perform while limiting their touring schedule and Mr. Jamal was able to do record production and community work.Mr. Jamal was born on July 2, 1930, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A child prodigy who began to play the piano at the age of 3, he began formal studies at age 7. While in high school, he completed the equivalent of college master classes under the noted African-American concert singer and teacher Mary Caldwell Dawson and pianist James Miller. He joined the musicians union at the age of 14, and he began touring upon graduation from Westinghouse High School at the age of 17, drawing critical acclaim for his solos. In 1950, he formed his first trio, The Three Strings. Performing at New York's The Embers club, Record Producer John Hammond “discovered” The Three Strings and signed them to Okeh Records (a division of Columbia, now Sony Records).Mr. Jamal has continued to record his outstanding original arrangements of such standards as 'I Love You', 'A Time For Love', 'On Green Dolphin Street' (well before Miles Davis!), 'End of a Love Affair', to cite a few. Mr. Jamal's own classic compositions begin with 'Ahmad's Blues' (first recorded on October 25, 1951!), 'New Rhumba', 'Manhattan Reflections', 'Tranquility', 'Extensions', 'The Awakening', 'Night Mist Blues' and most recently 'If I Find You Again', among many others..In 1994, Mr. Jamal received the American Jazz Masters award from the National Endowment for the Arts. The same year he was named a Duke Ellington Fellow at Yale University, where he performed commissioned works with the Assai String Quartet. A CD is available of these works.In 1970, Mr. Jamal performed the title tune by Johnny Mandel for the soundtrack of the film “Mash!”; and in 1995, two tracks from his hit album “But Not For Me” -- 'Music, Music, Music', and 'Poinciana' -- were featured in the Clint Eastwood film “The Bridges of Madison County”.Mr. Jamal's CD entitled “The Essence” features tenor saxophonist George Coleman -- Mr. Jamal's first recording made with a horn! Critical acclaim and outstanding sales resulted in two prestigious awards: D'jango D'or (critics) and Cloch (for sales) in France. Its success generated a concert at Salle Pleyel, and a CD has been released “Ahmad Jamal a Paris” (1992) and a second “live” concert by Mr. Jamal in l996 under the same title, unissued except in France and available on the Dreyfus Records on the Internet, Mr. Jamal rightly considers one of his best recordings. Ahmad Jamal's 70th Birthday “live” concert recording Olympia 2000, is known as “The Essence Part III”. “The Essence, Part II”, featured Donald Byrd on the title track, and on his CD entitled “Nature”, Stanley Turrentine is featured on 'The Devil's In My Den', and steel drummer Othello Molineaux augments the trio format. Continuing his recording career, Mr. Jamal released “In Search of” on CD, and his first DVD “Live In Baalbeck”.For students of the piano, Hal Leonard Publications has published “The Ahmad Jamal Collection”, a collection of piano transcriptions. Mr. Jamal continues to record exclusively for the French Birdology label, and his albums are released on Verve and Atlantic in the United States.Mr. Jamal is an exclusive Steinway piano artist.Mr. Jamal's 'About My Life' story in his own words:At three years of age, my wonderful Uncle Lawrence stopped me while I was walking past the piano in my parents' living room. He was playing the piano and challenged me to duplicate what he was doing. Although I had never touched this or any piano, I sat down and played note for note what I had heard. “The rest is history.”What a thrilling ride it has been and continues to be. I was born in one of the most remarkable places in the world for musicians and people in the arts - Pittsburgh, PA. At seven years, I was selling newspapers to Billy Strayhorn's family. Billy had already left home; I didn't get to meet him until years later. Following is a partial listing of “Pittsburghers:”George BensonRoy EldridgeArt BlakeyErrol GarnerKenny ClarkeEarl “Fatha” HinesBilly EcksteinPhyllis HymanMaxine SullivanGene KellyStanley TurrentineJoe Kennedy, Jr.Earl WildOscar LevantMary Loe WilliamsLorin MaazelGeorge Hudson (his orchestra was my first job away from home, I was 17 and just out of high school.) - Dodo MarmarosaDakota StatonBilly StrayhornAt seven years of age I began my studies with a wonderful woman, Mary Cardwell Dawson. In addition to her great influence on me, she was very influential in the careers of many musical personalities on a local, as well as worldwide basis. One of her students is my life long friend, violinist, Joe Kennedy, Jr. Later, while still in my teens, I began studying with James Miller, as a result of Mrs. Dawson's relocation to Washington, D.C.After touring with George Hudson's Orchestra, I traveled to Chicago with The Four Strings, a group headed by violinist, Joe Kennedy, Jr. Unfortunately, the group disbanded because of a lack of employment and in 1951, I formed The Three Strings.The year 1951 was the beginning of my recording career. “Ahmad's Blues,” which I wrote in 1948 during my stint with a song and dance team out of East St. Louis, was one of my first recordings; “Ahmad's Blues” has been heard in the stage play, “Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” and recorded by Marlena Shaw, Natalie Cole, Red Garland and others. The first session also included my arrangement of the folk tune, “Billy Boy,” which arrangement was copied by many of my peers. I wrote “New Rhumba” around 1951 and it has also been recorded and performed by many others, most notably Miles Davis. My most famous recording was done in Chicago in 1958 at the Pershing Hotel with two of the most talented musicians of the century, Israel Crosby and Vernell Fournier.Five decades covering my career are most interesting to me and contain some of the historical data that you can find by clicking the indicated categories of my web page menu. What you can't find won't be available until my proposed autobiography goes to print.To Visit Ahmad Jamal's website CLICK HERE

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Music From 100 Years Ago
Rhapsody In Blue

Music From 100 Years Ago

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 22, 2011 19:04


A special, short podcast featuring a 1945 recording of Rhapsody in Blue in its rarely-heard choral version.  The recording is conducted by Paul Whiteman features has Earl Wild on piano.

Music From 100 Years Ago
Classical V-Discs

Music From 100 Years Ago

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 11, 2010 47:17


Classical music released as part of the U.S. military's V-Disc program.  Works include: Verdi: La Forza del Destino Overture, Gershwin: I Got Rhythm Variations, Schubert: Impromptu, Saint Saens: The Swan and Glinka: Russlan and Ludmila Overture. Performers include: Arturo Toscanini, Arthur Rubenstein, Earl Wild, Jascha Heifetz, Lawrence Tibbett and Arthur Rodinski.