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Margaret Marian McPartland OBE (née Turner; [1] 20 March 1918 – 20 August 2013), was an English and American jazz pianist, composer, and writer. She was the host of Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz on National Public Radio from 1978 to 2011.
Marian McPartland at the Hickory House is an album released by Marian McPartland in 1955. Background. The album was supposedly a "live" set, but is actually a studio ...
McPartland's closing wistful solo piano version of "Singin' the Blues" (dedicated to her late husband, cornetist Jimmy McPartland) should not be missed". [1] The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings included the album in its suggested “core collection” of essential recordings.
Piano Jazz is a weekly one-hour radio show produced and distributed by National Public Radio (NPR). It began on June 4, 1978, and was hosted by jazz pianist Marian McPartland (1918–2013) until 2011.
Dryden highlighted Duke Ellington's "Clothed Woman", writing that "McPartland slowly unveils its shrouds, gliding through a maze of dramatic chords, joyous stride piano and repetitious vamps with a veteran's confidence" and regretted that the concert wasn't filmed "...in order for the rest of us to catch her playfulness at the piano, her head ...
The album comprises music and conversation recorded during a 2002 visit by Steely Dan's Walter Becker and Donald Fagen to Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz radio program. Together with McPartland on piano, Becker and Fagen play several jazz standards and three Steely Dan songs, backed by bass and drums.
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Piano Jazz, Piano Jazz: McPartland/Costello or Maria McPartland's Piano Jazz(2005) is an album by Marian McPartland, in collaboration with Elvis Costello. [1] The album is a collaboration between Costello and McPartand made for the NPR radio program Piano Jazz. The album expresses Mcpartland's interpretation of standards and ballads. [2]