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Jazz piano icon Keith Jarrett, who is credited with single-handedly creating an audience for extended solo piano improvisations, in the liner notes to his latest album gives a startlingly personal account of how he began that style as a boy in Allentown. An awful lot can happen in nine years. The last time jazz piano behemoth Mike Jones played in his native Buffalo, all of the following were true: By ROD LOCKWOOD BLADE STAFF WRITER Art Tatum could mess with your mind. Because Monty Alexander was born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica, it was natural that the hypnotic sway of Jamaican folk and pop music would exert influence on the jazz piano player. Another inspiration grew from the mythology of the American West. Next to the economy, the health insurance crisis arguably is on the minds of people more than anything else. David Blackwell, retired director of the Epilepsy Foundation of Idaho, brought that home to me with an e-mail last week about Janie Harris, the widow of jazz piano great Gene Harris and a longtime foundation board member. |
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