Marian McPartland And Willie Pickens - Ain't Misbehavin': Live At The Jazz Showcase (2001)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 257 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 139 MB | Covers - 21 MB
Genre: Piano Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Concord Jazz (CCD-4968-2)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 257 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 139 MB | Covers - 21 MB
Genre: Piano Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Concord Jazz (CCD-4968-2)
Here is a mismatch if there ever was one - or so it would appear. The always-elegant, always-spacious and graceful Marian McPartland, queen of the NPR program Piano Jazz, playing live with bluesed-out bebop reveler Willie Pickens in a live setting. But that's as far as contradictions go. This pair knows how to put together a program of piano duets and stress their differences rather than their similarities. It is as simple as sitting down Earl Hines and Fats Waller at the keys and telling them to go for it, that's how different these styles are. But somehow it works, and works so well that the listener will be stunned to know this was a one-off…