Horace Parlan - Jazz Piano Man...
Jan 21, 2017 10:29:25 #
Don G. Dinsdale
Loc: El Cajon, CA (San Diego County)
HORACE PARLAN - JAZZ PIANO MAN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwoeKoBfSB4&list=RDYwoeKoBfSB4#t=33
Horace Parlan (born January 19, 1931, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American hard bop and post-bop piano player.
He is noted for his contributions to the classic Charles Mingus recordings Mingus Ah Um and Blues & Roots.
In his birth year, Parlan was stricken with polio, resulting in the partial crippling of his right hand. The handicap, though, has contributed to his development of a particularly "pungent" left-hand chord voicing style, while comping with highly rhythmic phrases with the right.
Between 1952 and 1957, he worked in Washington DC with Sonny Stitt and then spent two years with Mingus' Jazz Workshop. In 1973, Parlan moved to Copenhagen, Denmark. He later settled in the small village of Rude in southern Zealand. In 1974 he did a State Department tour of Africa with Hal Singer.
His later work, notably a series of duos with the tenor saxophonist Archie Shepp, including the album Goin' Home, is steeped in gospel music.
He was recipient of the 2000 Ben Webster Prize given by the Ben Webster Foundation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwoeKoBfSB4&list=RDYwoeKoBfSB4#t=33
Horace Parlan (born January 19, 1931, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American hard bop and post-bop piano player.
He is noted for his contributions to the classic Charles Mingus recordings Mingus Ah Um and Blues & Roots.
In his birth year, Parlan was stricken with polio, resulting in the partial crippling of his right hand. The handicap, though, has contributed to his development of a particularly "pungent" left-hand chord voicing style, while comping with highly rhythmic phrases with the right.
Between 1952 and 1957, he worked in Washington DC with Sonny Stitt and then spent two years with Mingus' Jazz Workshop. In 1973, Parlan moved to Copenhagen, Denmark. He later settled in the small village of Rude in southern Zealand. In 1974 he did a State Department tour of Africa with Hal Singer.
His later work, notably a series of duos with the tenor saxophonist Archie Shepp, including the album Goin' Home, is steeped in gospel music.
He was recipient of the 2000 Ben Webster Prize given by the Ben Webster Foundation.
Jan 23, 2017 02:17:01 #
Don G. Dinsdale wrote:
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I loved it, Don. Though jazz piano always seemed too technical for me, I enjoyed Mr. Parlan, as the melody didn't suffer in the performance. Amazing, isn't it, how polio debilitated both Mr. Parlan and Itzak Perlman, yet both overcame their affliction to become superior musicians?
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