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Robert Acri (October 1, 1918 – July 25, 2013) [1] was an American jazz pianist. Acri graduated from Austin High School in Chicago. While at Austin High, he began his career at the NBC Orchestra on the Dave Garroway Radio Show. He was a classically trained pianist, studying with Rudolph Ganz and Fred Euing.
The twelve Connick compositions on Other Hours was originally made for the 2001 musical Thou Shalt Not, which was the recipient of a Tony nomination for Best Original Musical Score (music & lyrics by Harry Connick Jr). A special feature is the cover artwork. Created by his mother, Anita, who died when Connick was only 13 years old.
Eastwood After Hours: Live at Carnegie Hall is a two-disc live album by American actor Clint Eastwood and various jazz musicians. Released on April 29, 1997, by Warner Bros. Records, it compiles material from Eastwood's film scores—including Play Misty for Me (1971), Honkytonk Man (1982), Bird (1988), Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser (1988), and White Hunter Black Heart (1990 ...
The follow-up was also a trio record, with various other musicians, and was made in 1955. [3] The two were released on one CD by Fresh Sound. [3] Disillusioned with the jazz life in New York, Williams decided to move to Florida, where he played for a time as a pianist in Miami Beach, then receded from performance. [1]
Between 10 and 30% of ... One possible reason brown noise elicits calming, sleep-inducing relaxation: “As the cochlea develops in utero first in the low-frequency range, exposure to brown noise ...
Sleep is an eight-and-a-half hour concept album based around the neuroscience of sleep [3] by German-British composer Max Richter. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] It was released on September 4, 2015, accompanied by a one-hour version with variations, From Sleep , [ 6 ] later remixed as Sleep Remixes .
Bill Evans performing at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1978. Mastering the various chord voicings—simple to advanced—is the first building block of learning jazz piano. Jazz piano technique uses all the chords found in Western art music, such as major, minor, augmented, diminished, seventh, diminished seventh, sixth, minor seventh, major seventh, suspended fourth, and so
Taylor was professor of Jazz Piano at the Cologne College of Music from 1993 onwards, and became a lecturer in jazz at University of York [8] in 2005. He coached and taught undergraduate jazz musicians and was of central importance to the new master's degree jazz pathway and in advancing doctoral research and performance in jazz.