Piano Jazz (Jazz)

Pianist and singer Barbara Carroll was McPartland’s second guest during the first season of Piano Jazz. Thirty years later, Carroll made a return appearance to reminisce with her good friend about their experiences at the Hickory House and the Oak Room in Manhattan. Carroll gives a charmed performance of Bill Evans’ tune, “Very Early,” and McPartland improvises a musical portrait of her guest.

Pianist Christopher Ziemba is an amazing young pianist and composer currently enrolled in the post-graduate program in Jazz Studies at Julliard. He took the stage at age 7, playing with his hometown orchestra; last year he won the 2011 Jacksonville Jazz Piano Competition. On his Piano Jazz debut from 2009, Ziemba performs “Dream Dancing” and “The Nearness of You.”

Piano Jazz remembers composer, arranger and pianist Clare Fischer. In a carreer spanning more than 60 years he worked as arranger across genres, including the music of Dizzy Gillespie, Paul McCartney, Prince, Celine Dionne among many others. his tunes alson entered the jazz repertoire. On this 2001 Piano Jazz, Fischer performes "Isfahan" and "Bloodcount," and McPartland performes his "Pensativa". Clare Fischer died in January, 2012 at age 83.

Bill Charlap is one of the finest interpreters of American popular song on the scene today. His wife, pianist Renee Rosnes, is widely regarded as a modern jazz master. The two combine forces on this Piano Jazz, performing their version of McPartland’s “Twilight World” before getting together with their host for a three-piano extravaganza!

Pianist Beegie Adair is known for an impeccable sense of swing and her smooth but intricate playing. The Nashville resident has been an in-demand pianist for the town’s best country musicians, but her heart belongs to those classic tunes from the Great American Songbook. Adair performs a graceful version of "I Wished on the Moon" and teams up with McPartland for her signature closer, "We'll Be Together Again."

Jimmy McPartland was one of the great cornet players from the early Jazz Era and is the late husband of Marian McPartland. Piano Jazz celebrates the jazz legend’s centennial with a special concert from the Danny Kaye Playhouse at the 2007 JVC Jazz Festival. Host McPartland gathered a group of Jimmy’s former band mates for an hour of traditional jazz music.

Larry Willis is a swinging pianist, an artful composer and arranger, and the music director and producer for the boutique label, Mapleshade Records. He’s a master of a wide range of styles and has played or recorded with almost every great jazz musician of the modern era, including Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Getz, and Shirley Horn. No stranger to piano duets, Willis joins McPartland for “I Should Care” and “Alone Together.”

At age 16, guitarist Bobby Broom was recruited by Sonny Rollins, and he’s been dazzling listeners and fellow musicians ever since with his well-honed technique and innovative style. His love of jazz flows through his fingers and resonates on his six strings, as he solos on his own tune, “Coming Home,” before joining bassist Gary Mazzaroppi and McPartland for “Can’t Buy Me Love” and “Donna Lee.”

At age 16, guitarist Bobby Broom was recruited by Sonny Rollins, and he’s been dazzling listeners and fellow musicians ever since with his well-honed technique and innovative style. His love of jazz flows through his fingers and resonates on his six strings, as he solos on his own tune, “Coming Home,” before joining bassist Gary Mazzaroppi and McPartland for “Can’t Buy Me Love” and “Donna Lee.”

At age 16, guitarist Bobby Broom was recruited by Sonny Rollins, and he’s been dazzling listeners and fellow musicians ever since with his well-honed technique and innovative style. His love of jazz flows through his fingers and resonates on his six strings, as he solos on his own tune, “Coming Home,” before joining bassist Gary Mazzaroppi and McPartland for “Can’t Buy Me Love” and “Donna Lee.”

At age 16, guitarist Bobby Broom was recruited by Sonny Rollins, and he’s been dazzling listeners and fellow musicians ever since with his well-honed technique and innovative style. His love of jazz flows through his fingers and resonates on his six strings, as he solos on his own tune, “Coming Home,” before joining bassist Gary Mazzaroppi and McPartland for “Can’t Buy Me Love” and “Donna Lee.”

At age 16, guitarist Bobby Broom was recruited by Sonny Rollins, and he’s been dazzling listeners and fellow musicians ever since with his well-honed technique and innovative style. His love of jazz flows through his fingers and resonates on his six strings, as he solos on his own tune, “Coming Home,” before joining bassist Gary Mazzaroppi and McPartland for “Can’t Buy Me Love” and “Donna Lee.”

At age 16, guitarist Bobby Broom was recruited by Sonny Rollins, and he’s been dazzling listeners and fellow musicians ever since with his well-honed technique and innovative style. His love of jazz flows through his fingers and resonates on his six strings, as he solos on his own tune, “Coming Home,” before joining bassist Gary Mazzaroppi and McPartland for “Can’t Buy Me Love” and “Donna Lee.”

At age 16, guitarist Bobby Broom was recruited by Sonny Rollins, and he’s been dazzling listeners and fellow musicians ever since with his well-honed technique and innovative style. His love of jazz flows through his fingers and resonates on his six strings, as he solos on his own tune, “Coming Home,” before joining bassist Gary Mazzaroppi and McPartland for “Can’t Buy Me Love” and “Donna Lee.”

At age 16, guitarist Bobby Broom was recruited by Sonny Rollins, and he’s been dazzling listeners and fellow musicians ever since with his well-honed technique and innovative style. His love of jazz flows through his fingers and resonates on his six strings, as he solos on his own tune, “Coming Home,” before joining bassist Gary Mazzaroppi and McPartland for “Can’t Buy Me Love” and “Donna Lee.”