John Lewis (pianist) - John Lewis (pianist) John Aaron Lewis (1920-2001) was an American jazz pianist and composer best known as the musical director of the Modern Jazz Quartet. Before recording with the Milt Jackson Quartet in 1951 he had performed or recorded with Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Illinois Jacquet, Miles Davis, and Lester Young. The Modern Jazz Quartet developed out of the Jackson quartet; Lewis was its musical director till it disbanded in 1974 and after it reorganized in 1981. He was also an educator and composer of movie scores..
Karol Szymanowski - 1882 - March 29, 1937) was a Polish composer and pianist. Szymanowksi was born in Ukraine. He studied music privately with his father before going to the Elizawetgrad School of Music and, from 1901, the State Conservatory in Warsaw (he was later director there for a few years at the end of the 1920s). He travelled widely, throughout Europe and to the USA. He died in a sanatorium in Lausanne. Szymanowski's was influenced by the music of Richard Strauss, Max Reger, Alexander Scriabin and the impressionism of Claude Debussy. He also drew influence from his countryman Frederic Chopin and Polish folk music, and like Chopin he wrote a number of mazurkas for piano (the mazurka being a Polish folk dance). Among Szymanowski's better known works are his two violin concertos, the.
Kathleen Ferrier - in Carlisle that her husband bet her that she could not sing in a singing competition. She entered and won in two categories. She had thought to enter as a pianist. It could have been this which brought her talents to public attention, and was a significant factor in her deciding to pursue a career in music. Her marriage, however, did not work out, and was annulled after 12 years. She studied with the baritone, Roy Henderson, who was a well known singing teacher at the time. Benjamin Britten wrote several parts specifically for her, including Lucretia in The Rape of Lucretia, Abraham and Isaac (also written for Peter Pears), and part of the Spring Symphony (1949). She worked with several famous conductors, including Bruno Walter, John Barbirolli, Malcolm Sargent, Clemens.
Katrine Gislinge - Katrine Gislinge (born 1969) is a Scandinavian pianist. She began taking piano lessons at the age of six. After taking her diploma in 1990 at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen, she studied with, among others, Seymour Lipkin in New York, Boris Berman and Peter Feuchtwanger in London. Katrine Gislinge's concerts have evoked a broad spectrum of superlatives. She is well known for her musical imagination and profound empathy with the classical repertoire. Katrine Gislinge's career has picked up speed: She is the first Danish pianist to record on Deutsche Grammophon, chamber music collaboration with international artists like the German Petersen String Quartet, the cellist Jian Wang, cellist Marc Coppey, the flautist Emmanuel Pahud, the violinist Augustin Dumay and the violist Gérard Caussé; solo concerts at international festivals (fx..
Keyboardist - plays keyboard instruments. The term "keyboardist" is more general than the term "pianist" "harpsichordist"or "organist", and is often used to describe someone who plays the electric keyboard as well as the piano, harpsichord, celeste, clavichord, or organ and the synthesizer..
Kentwood, Louisiana - town had a total population of 2,205. Kentwood was the birthplace of pop artist Britney Spears and jazz pianist Little Brother Montgomery. It is also the place of residence of Jason Allen Alexander, as of 2004. Water from Kentwood is bottled and popularly marked in New Orleans under the Kentwood Spring Water label. Geography Kentwood is located at 30°56'10" North, 90°30'55" West (30.936116, -90.515389)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 17.9 km² (6.9 mi²). 17.9 km² (6.9 mi²) of it is land and 0.14% is water. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there are 2,205 people, 850 households, and 559 families residing in the town. The population density is 123.0/km² (318.4/mi²). There are 979 housing units at an average density of 54.6/km².
Kenny Drew - Drew (1938 - 1993) was an American jazz pianist from New York City. He first recorded with Howard McGhee in 1949, and over the next two years recorded with Buddy DeFranco, Coleman Hawkins, Milt Jackson, Charlie Parker, Buddy Rich, and Dinah Washington. He then led many recording sessions throughout the 1950s. In 1961 he moved to Europe, and as a result sacrificed much of the interest of the American jazz audience, but he worked and recorded regularly until his death. His son Kenny Drew, Jr is also a jazz pianist..
Krystian Zimerman - (born December 5, 1956) is a Polish classical pianist. He was born in Zabrze and studied at the Katowice Conservatory under Andrzej Jasinki. He career was launched when he won the prestigious Warsaw Chopin Piano Competition in 1975. His American debut came in 1979 with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. He has since toured widely and made a number of recordings. Since 1996 he has taught piano at the Academy of Music in Basel. Zimerman is best known for his interpretations of Romantic music, but has performed a wide variety of classical pieces, including some contemporary works (he gave the British premiere of Witold Lutoslawski's Piano Concerto in 1989, for example, and has recorded the work)..
J. Russell Robinson - Robinson (1892 - 1963) was a United States ragtime and jazz pianist and a composer of popular tunes. Robinson was born in Indianapolis, Indiana on July 8, 1892. He started publishing ragtime compositions in his teens; his early hits included Sapho Rag and Eccentric. With his drummer brother (name?) he toured the US South in the early 1910s, including an extended stay in New Orleans. He was known for his heavily blues and jazz influenced playing style; advertisements billed him (in the somewhat racist language of the time) as "The White Boy with the Colored Fingers". In 1919 Robinson joined the Original Dixieland Jazz Band. He then went to work with W.C. Handy's publishing company, supplying new arrangements and lyrics for popular editions of tunes like "Memphis Blues" and "Ole Miss".
Jazz - variations on the initial melody. Musicians imitated him, not the ensemble, and jazz became a solo form. The presence of dance venues influenced jazz musicians in two ways. They were more of them, since they could make a living, and jazz--like all the popular music of the 1920s--adopted the 4/4 beat of dance music. With prohibition, the constitutional amendment that forbade the sale of alcoholic beverages, the legal saloons and cabarets were closed, but in their place hundreds of speakeasies appeared, where patrons drank and were entertained by musicians. The music was still a mixture of things--current dance numbers, novelty songs, show tunes. "Businessman's bounce music," as one horn player put it. But musicians with steady jobs, playing with the same companions, were able to go far beyond that. The Ellington.
January 24 - 1822) 1862 - Edith Wharton, writer (†1937) 1888 - Vicki Baum, writer (†1960) 1888 - Ernst Heinkel, aircraft designer (†1958) 1895 - Eugen Roth, lyricist and narrator (†1976) 1917 - Ernest Borgnine, actor 1918 - Oral Roberts, evangelist 1925 - Maria Tallchief, prima ballerina 1928 - Desmond Morris, anthropologist, writer 1939 - Doug Kershaw, musician 1939 - Ray Stevens, country music musician 1943 - Sharon Tate, actress (†1969) 1944 - Neil Diamond, singer 1946 - Michael Ontkean, actor 1947 - Warren Zevon, American musician-songwriter (†2003) 1949 - John Belushi, actor (†1982) 1958 - Jools Holland, musician 1960 - Nastassja Kinski, actress 1968 - Mary Lou Retton, gymnast 1979 - Tatyana Ali, actress Deaths 1366 - King Alfonso IV of Aragon 1920 - Amedeo Modigliani,.
January 5 - legal hanging in America since 1965). 1996 - Hamas operative Yahya Ayyash is killed by an Israeli-planted booby-trapped cell phone. 2000 - The 1st day of the 2000 Al Qaeda Summit 2002 - Charles Bishop, a 15-year-old student pilot, crashes a light aircraft into a Tampa, Florida building, evoking fear of a copycat 9/11 terrorist attack. Births 1596 - Henry Lawes, composer (†1662) 1717 - William Wildman Shute Barrington, British statesman (†1793) 1779 - Stephen Decatur, American naval officer (†1820) 1855 - King Camp Gillette, inventor (†1932) 1876 - Konrad Adenauer, German chancellor 1949-1963 (†1967) 1880 - Nikolay Medtner, composer (†1951) 1893 - Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru (†1952) 1904 - Jeane Dixon, astrologer (†1997) 1909 - Stephen Kleene, mathematician (†1994) 1913 -.
January 20 - see the San Francisco 49ers beat the Miami Dolphins, 38-16. This game also was the first time television commercials ran for a million dollars a minute. 1985 - Ronald W. Reagan is inaugurated for a second term as President of the United States. 1986 - Martin Luther King, Jr, day was celebrated as a federal holiday for the first time. 1986 - The United Kingdom and France announce plans to construct the Channel Tunnel. 1989 - George H. W. Bush is inaugurated as the 41st President of the United States. 1993 - Bill Clinton is inaugurated as the 42nd President of the United States. 1994 - In South Carolina, Shannon Faulkner becomes the first female student to attend The Citadel but soon drops out. 1996 - Yasser Arafat is elected president.
January 9 - architect 1913 - Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States (†1994) 1913 - Lavad 'Dr Hepcat' Durst, musician 1913 - Peter John Norton, diplomat, artist 1914 - Kenny (Klook) Clarke, jazz drummer, composer 1914? - Gypsy Rose Lee, burlesque actress (†1970) 1915 - Fernando Lamas, actor (†1982) 1915 - Les Paul, guitarist, inventor 1916 - Vic Mizzy, orchestra leader 1917 - Herbert Lom, actor 1921 - Seymour Barab, composer 1921 - Patricia Highsmith, Americann novelist (†1995) 1922 - Ahmed Sékou Touré, President of Guinea 1922 - Har Gobind Khorana, biochemist (1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine) 1924 - Julián B Coco, guitarist, bassist 1925 - Lee Van Cleef, actor (†1989) 1925 - Abdelhamid Benhadugah, novelist 1928 - Judith Krantz, author 1928 - Domenico Modugno,.
Jane Bathori - important opera star. Bathori originally studied piano and planned for a career as concert pianist but soon turned to singing, making her professional debut sometime in 1898 at the small Théâtre de la Bodinière in the rue Saint-Lazare in a concert to honor the poet Paul Verlaine. That same year, her debut in the grands concerts began when she appeared at the Concerts du Conservatoire followed by performances in Gabriel Fauré's La Naissance de Vénus and Camille Saint-Saëns' Messe de Requiem. During the season 1899 – 1900 she made her mezzo-soprano operatic debut at Nantes. In the early 1900s, Bathori began studying with Pierre-Emile Engel, whom she married in 1908. In 1917, she became the director of the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier. After the war she sang at La Scala and in.
Jacqueline du Pré - her first appearance in the USA on May 14 at the Carnegie Hall. Her friendship with musicians Itzhak Perlman, Zubin Mehta, Pinchas Zuckerman and Daniel Barenboim led to the famous film by Christopher Nupen of their Schubert "Trout" Quintet. The friendship with Daniel Barenboim would be of greater importance in her life. Awards Du Pré received several fellowships from music academies and honorary doctorate degrees from Universities, as an acknowledgment of her talent. In 1960, she won the gold medal of the Guildhall School of Music in London and the Queen's Prize for British musicians. She was created an OBE in 1976. Marriage In the Christmas of 1966, Jacqueline met pianist Daniel Barenboim. Their marriage one year later brought one of the most fruitful relationships in the world of music: some.
James P. Johnson - P. Johnson February 1, 1894 - November 17, 1955) was a pianist and composer. With Lucky Roberts, Johnson was one of the originaters of the stride style of piano playing. James Prince Johnson was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey. His family moved to New York City in 1908. His first professional engagement was at Coney Island in 1912. Johnson's tune Charleston (which debuted in the Broadway show Runnin' Wild in 1923, although by some accounts Johnson had written years earlier) became one of the most popular tunes and arguably the definitive dance number of the Roaring 1920s. His other hits included "You've Got to be Modernistic", "Keep Off the Grass", "Old Fashioned Love", "A Porter's Love Song To A Chambermaid", "Carolina Shout", "If I Could Be With You (One Hour.
Jamie Cullum - Cullum (born 1980) is a British jazz pianist and singer. Originally from Malmesbury in Wiltshire, England, he released his first album, Jamie Cullum Trio -- Heard it All Before, in 1999. It sold unusually well for a home-produced effort, and resulted in his being invited to appear on Geoff Gascoyne's album, Songs of the Summer. After graduating from the University of Reading in 2001, Jamie, who is largely self-taught, released a best-selling album, Pointless Nostalgic, and in April 2003 signed a record-breaking contract with Universal. Although primarily a jazz musician, he performs in a wide range of styles and is generally regarded as a "crossover" artist. In July 2003 he won the "Rising Star" category at the British Jazz Awards. His second album, Twentysomething, was released in October 2003..
Jacques Thibaud - technique. In 1943 he established the Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud International Competition, a competition for violinists and pianists with Marguerite Long. As well as a soloist, Thibaud was noted for his performances of chamber music, particularly as part of a piano trio with the pianist Alfred Cortot and cellist Pablo Casals. He was a friend of Eugène Ysaÿe who dedicated his second sonata for solo violin to him. Thibaud was killed in an air crash on Mont Cemet. His Stradivarius violin was also destroyed..
Jay McShann - McShann (born in 1909) is an American blues and swing pianist, bandleader, and singer. He began working as a professional musician in 1931. In 1939 he organized his own big band, which later featured Charlie Parker, Bernard Anderson, and Walter Brown. Although its book included both swing and blues numbers, the band played blues on most of its records; its most popular recording was "Confessin' The Blues". The group disbanded when McShann was drafted in 1944, but re-formed when he was discharged the same year. Sometime in the later 1940s McShann started to lead small groups featuring Jimmy Witherspoon; Witherspoon started recording with McShann in 1945. McShann then played in obscurity until 1969, when he became popular as a singer as well as a pianist, often performing with Claude Williams. He.
