Mr. CLARENCE SMITH (Jazz Pianist): And listen to you all, this is my parents' half stroke(ph).
DeRose began building a career as a jazz pianist, playing small clubs in and around her hometown.
Jazz pianist and composer Stan Tracey, who turns 81 on Sunday, also becomes a CBE, as does comic actress Julie Walters.
Jazz pianist and vocalist Bob Dorough was approached in 1971 by a New York advertising executive whose sons could not multiply.
Jazz pianist Antony Dontchev said the decision to give EU money, meant for small businesses, to a thriving company, was "totally absurd".
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Mr. LALO SCHIFRIN (Composer, Jazz Pianist): Oh, it's great to be here.
Born in the Soviet Union only 20 years ago, jazz pianist Eldar Djangirov is captivating audiences worldwide with his remarkable talent at the piano.
Next, I went to the Trustee's Theater, one of those restored movie palaces, for the sold-out performance of the energetic octogenarian jazz pianist Ahmad Jamal.
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As a jazz pianist, Mr. Tepfer says, the challenge in recording the Goldbergs was to remain true to himself in both the baroque and the contemporary idiom.
At age 8, he completely lost his eyesight to cancer but nonetheless went on to become a black belt in karate, a jazz pianist, a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, an editor of the law review at Yale and an attorney at a prestigious Seattle-based firm.
Jazz pianist Cyrus Chestnut and pop icon Elvis Presley aren't a likely pairing: Chestnut is one of the top pianists of a generation born many years after songs like "Love Me Tender, " "Hound Dog" and "Don't Be Cruel" made Presley the king of rock 'n' roll.
Mr. RIZZO: OK. When I started coming up as a young jazz pianist in the '50s--and I'm giving my age away here--Bill Evans was the only guy on the scene who did not play in the tradition of the prevailing trend, which was hard bob gospel weird stuff.
Jazz vocalist and pianist Shirley Horn died yesterday at the age of 71.
So although she's best known for her original songwriting, the jazz vocalist and pianist was well-suited to make a record of Cole Porter songs.
"It's zany in the most wonderful way, " says the 44-year-old jazz singer-pianist.
The U.S. jazz audience discovered virtuosic pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba after bassist Charlie Haden heard him playing in Havana, Cuba.
The night after the finals, Mr. Brown played Manhattan's Jazz Standard, supporting pianist Gerald Clayton (a Monk finalist in 2006).
As distinct from traditional "comping" in jazz, where the pianist and the chords follow the soloist around like a private eye, Messrs.
Like many jazz musicians, South African pianist and composer Abdullah Ibrahim grew up listening to gospel music.
In this city during the past few years, I've enjoyed witnessing the deepening jazz-family relationship between pianist-composer Joe Alterman, 24, and tenor saxophonist Houston Person, 78, a musician whom I'd profiled in the Journal in 2010.
As he once told pianist Oscar Peterson, once a jazz musician, always a jazz musician.
Barry trained as a classical pianist but turned his attention to jazz.
Born and raised in Houston, pianist Robert Glasper literally grew up in jazz clubs.
During a break, the substitute pianist, a young African-American jazz musician named Herbie Hancock, was doodling with a tune he'd just written.
This year's festival is due to feature the pianist and BBC presenter Jools Holland and young jazz star Jamie Cullum.
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Pianist Robert Glasper has won attention for fusing jazz ideas with hip-hop sensibilities and often producing music with rappers and neo-soul singers.
The concert will include country singer Tim McGraw, pianist and singer Harry Connick Jr. and jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, all Louisiana natives.
Soon Mr. Virelles grew more expansive, issuing phrases voiced with a classical pianist's pristine touch, with a jazz player's edge, or just as pure percussive force.
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In the constant race to find the next cure for jazz (hint: it ain't broken), pianist Aaron Parks seems perfectly content to set his own pace.
Back in the 1950s, Allison created a style all his own by coupling his talents as a pianist and lyricist and applying them to the elements of jazz and blues.
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