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With the jazz musician’s particular group, the session typically includes a pianist, a bassist, and a drummer.
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Liz Pelly, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
Carter loved jazz and touted the pioneering free-jazz pianist Cecil Taylor in interviews.
—August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2024
This six-song album, recorded last year at the Big Apple’s Smoke Jazz Club, is dedicated to the late pianist Barry Harris, a key McPherson mentor.
—George Varga, The Mercury News, 27 Dec. 2024
Also lost were Electric Flag founder Nick Gravenites, 85; saxophonist David Sanborn, 78, of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band; Jim Beard, 63, the jazzy pianist for Steely Dan; and guitarist John Koerner, 85, an early influence for Bob Dylan.
—David Colton, USA TODAY, 27 Dec. 2024
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Liz Pelly, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
Carter loved jazz and touted the pioneering free-jazz pianist Cecil Taylor in interviews.
—August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2024
This six-song album, recorded last year at the Big Apple’s Smoke Jazz Club, is dedicated to the late pianist Barry Harris, a key McPherson mentor.
—George Varga, The Mercury News, 27 Dec. 2024
Also lost were Electric Flag founder Nick Gravenites, 85; saxophonist David Sanborn, 78, of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band; Jim Beard, 63, the jazzy pianist for Steely Dan; and guitarist John Koerner, 85, an early influence for Bob Dylan.
—David Colton, USA TODAY, 27 Dec. 2024
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Join in the singing of beloved hymns and anthems with guest choir conductor and organist Charles Frost.News Release, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Jan. 2025
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Photos of Bill wearing his home run crown and others of him posing with ballpark organist Nancy Faust still generate smiles to this day.Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
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An elbow injury disrupted the career that Elaine Schmidt might have had as a high-level flutist.Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 1 Jan. 2025
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Anchoring the horn section is saxophonist/flutist Mitch Frohman, a founding member of the SHO who like Hernández established himself on New York’s Latin music scene during the heyday of salsa dura in the mid-‘70s.Andrew Gilbert, The Mercury News, 17 Dec. 2024
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The friend said that Moore’s brother-in-law is a musician, who has spent the past 20 years as a touring drummer.Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 10 Jan. 2025
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Perhaps that’s why Tango in the Night is the rare late ’80s blockbuster with a real human touch in its arrangements, at a time when other classic rock drummers and bassists were being sidelined in the studio by drum machines and synthesizers.Al Shipley, SPIN, 9 Jan. 2025
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Shakti was not only an East-West fusion, but also, with its two percussionists, a fusion of North and South Indian rhythms.Jon Pareles, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2024
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Coldplay was originally formed in London in 1997 with singer and pianist Martin guitarist Jonny Buckland, bassist Guy Berryman and drummer/percussionist Will Champion after meeting at University College London.Dory Jackson, People.com, 8 Oct. 2024
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Jimin has only released two albums as a soloist so far.Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
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Ross Gershenson is the horn soloist for Concerto for Horn and Orchestra (2007), composed by the South Bay’s Lee Actor.Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 12 Jan. 2025
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One night in 1969, jazz trumpeter Al Hirt, who had opened a nightclub in Atlanta, coaxed Uecker up onstage.Chris Koseluk, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Jan. 2025
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The immensely talented jazz-pop trumpeter has hit No. 1 on the Billboard jazz albums chart on multiple occasions and sold millions of records during a professional career that dates back to the mid-’80s.Jim Harrington, The Mercury News, 26 Dec. 2024
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The other snap with Swift features the same group of women and the Eras Tour keyboardist, Karina DePiano, all glammed up.Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
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The occasional supergroup has made a tradition of playing Phish after-parties—Medeski and Martin (the keyboardist and the drummer of the jazz-fusion band Medeski Martin & Wood), who have been linked with the jam band since 1995, channel the same psychedelic release in their own playing.The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2024
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“Pianist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pianist. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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