Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz

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Has anyone actually heard any of the shows they've put out on cd? I can't speak for her playing, but judging from the guests some of them must be fascinating - Alice Coltrane, Bill Evans, apparently a new reissue with Mary Lou Williams, etc. When musicians are interviewed by musicians, it tends to be good.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 15:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Any relation to ant?

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 15:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Who now?

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 16:30 (twenty-two years ago)

These shows have been broadcast on public radio for about a hundred years now, and they're typically great. Didn't know about them being issued on CD, though.

Note how each piano (during duets) sticks to it's own speaker so you can differentiate betwixt the players.

― christoff (christoff), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 16:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Aristocratic New England accents: C/D?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 16:38 (twenty-two years ago)

She did a show with Willie Nelson about a year ago that was pretty great.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 16:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, I've seen her interviewed on tv and I love the idea of this stately old British woman who can throw down on some Giant Steps.

(wait, New England? I thought it was, you know, Old England)

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 16:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I haven't heard any of the discs, but listened to the broadcasts for years. They were always at least interesting, and could be fascinating, depending on the guest. Marian's playing was invariably intelligent and playful, and she brought out some wonderful things from the guests -- fun to hear the dialogue between two pianos. The Bill Evans one I remember as being particulary exciting.

― briania, Wednesday, 24 March 2004 16:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, she is from Old England. But she's been in America for so long, she has that peculiar accent that's similar to an aristocratic New Englander to me. (I have a friend who moved to the U.S. from Manchester when she was 9. Lots of people upon first meeting her think she's pretentious, until they realize it's just a vestigial British accent that sometimes sneaks into her voice.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 17:09 (twenty-two years ago)

nine years pass...

R.I.P.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2013/08/21/161653933/marian-mcpartland-piano-jazz-host-has-died

I've been listening to Piano Jazz on and off for probably 20 years. So much great stuff in her archives. I loved her conversation as much as her playing. And she was this amazing living link to the earliest days of jazz.

― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 14:21 (twelve years ago)

RIP. Those shows are so great. Bill Evans one is far and away the best interview I've ever heard with him.

― tylerw, Wednesday, 21 August 2013 14:29 (twelve years ago)

Yeah, the Bill Evans one is great. Link here: http://www.npr.org/2010/10/08/92185496/bill-evans-on-piano-jazz.

― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 14:32 (twelve years ago)

sunday evenings won't be the same. RIP

― andrew m., Wednesday, 21 August 2013 14:34 (twelve years ago)

That also leaves horace silver and sonny rollins as the last "great day in harlem" musicians.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/34/Great_Day_in_Harlem.jpg

― christmas candy bar (al leong), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 14:38 (twelve years ago)

wow is that right? crazy.
can't have been easy to have been a woman (much less an English woman?) in that scene, but she seems to have been loved by everyone. you can tell on her show that even the most prickly musicians (say, keith jarrett) have a deep respect.

― tylerw, Wednesday, 21 August 2013 14:42 (twelve years ago)

RIP...
I wish MS Public Radio had aired her show. I haven't heard it since my Redding days. I remember a fantastic Max Roach episode... was she still recording new shows this past year?

― cops on horse (WilliamC), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 14:47 (twelve years ago)

RIP.

― The O RLY of Everything (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 14:50 (twelve years ago)

seems like they'd been running archival stuff for a while? at least i hadn't heard a new one in a bit.
that max roach one is fantastic, yeah.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=19269815
the alice coltrane one too: http://www.npr.org/2011/09/23/140743198/alice-coltrane-on-piano-jazz

― tylerw, Wednesday, 21 August 2013 14:53 (twelve years ago)

Heard some of that touching and interesting Felix Contreras NPR report on her passing on the radio this morning. RIP.

x-post -speaking of Sonny Rollins, hope y'all have read that new interview with him that I linked to on his ilx thread.

― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 21 August 2013 14:55 (twelve years ago)

the CD of her Alice Coltrane interview is straight up one of my favourite Alice albums. piano Giant Steps. can't wait to listen to more. rip.

― szarkasm (schlump), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 15:32 (twelve years ago)

one month passes...

http://www.npr.org/2010/07/23/128697496/john-bunch-on-piano-jazz

― I Am the Cosimo Code (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 28 September 2013 15:36 (twelve years ago)

Her favorite piano partner, apparently.

― I Am the Cosimo Code (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 28 September 2013 15:52 (twelve years ago)

/john_bunch_street_team

― I Am the Cosimo Code (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 28 September 2013 16:12 (twelve years ago)

Oh, that's great we haven't lost a thing , John. Let's get a gig. Or another gig, or something."

― I Am the Cosimo Code (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 28 September 2013 16:23 (twelve years ago)

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