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Abrams plays some of the best piano of his distinguished career, in fact." [ 5 ] Pianist and composer Ethan Iverson called the album "an incredibly listenable session of the finest exponents of this rather hectic style," and commented: "This is a one-off quintet, but everyone brings their A-game.
Text logo. Tiny Desk Concerts is a video series of live concerts hosted by NPR Music at the desk of former All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen in Washington, D.C.. The first Tiny Desk Concert came about in 2008 after Boilen and NPR Music editor Stephen Thompson left South by Southwest frustrated that they couldn't hear the music over the crowd noise.
The American composer and conductor Teddy Abrams composed his Piano Concerto for pianist Yuja Wang, who was his classmate during their student days at the Curtis Institute of Music. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Wang performed its world premiere in Whitney Hall at the Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts with the Louisville Orchestra conducted by Abrams on 7 ...
Daniel Abrams (born May 20, 1966) [1] is an American media entrepreneur, [2] television host, [3] and author. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] He is currently the host of the prime-time show Dan Abrams Live on NewsNation , On Patrol: Live on Reelz , [ 7 ] and The Dan Abrams Show: Where Politics Meets The Law [ 8 ] on SiriusXM's [ 9 ] P.O.T.U.S. channel.
Jacques Abram (August 6, 1915 – October 5, 1998), born Jack Gregory Abram, [1] an American classical pianist, was born in Lufkin, Texas [2] and died in Tampa, Florida. [ 3 ] Abram began improvising at age 3 and performing in public at age 6.
The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) is an American nonprofit organization, founded in 1965 in Chicago by pianist Muhal Richard Abrams, pianist Jodie Christian, drummer Steve McCall, and composer Phil Cohran. [1] The AACM is devoted "to nurturing, performing, and recording serious, original music," according to its ...
Scott Yanow of Allmusic stated, "This is a particularly interesting set by Woody Shaw (not yet reissued on CD) because it teams the trumpeter with the great saxophonist Anthony Braxton and such forward-thinking players as altoist Arthur Blythe, pianist Muhal Richard Abrams, bassist Cecil McBee and drummer Joe Chambers". [3]
Elena Dmitrievna Bashkirova (Russian: Елена Дмитриевна Башкирова; born 1958) is a Russian-born Israeli pianist and musical director. Bashkirova was born in Moscow, the daughter of pianist and teacher Dimitri Bashkirov. She studied at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory. She founded the Metropolis Ensemble in Berlin, and in 1998 ...