Finalists of the American Pianists Awards
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Finalists of the American Pianists Awards
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For an American jazz pianist on the rise, there could also be no larger honor than the Cole Porter Fellowship. Bestowed each 4 years by the American Pianists Affiliation, it is the prize on the finish of a rigorous competitors, and a very good enhance for a creative profession. In reality, every of the final 4 Cole Porter fellows has been featured on Jazz Evening in America — together with Sullivan Fortner, who returned to serve on the competitors jury this 12 months.
On this episode of Jazz Evening, we’ll spend an hour on the competitors finals, listening to from Fortner and others. The primary attraction, in fact, could be the 5 extraordinary younger pianists vying for the prize. We’ll get to know every of them, and listen to highlights from their trio performances in the course of the Membership Finals this previous April at The Cabaret in downtown Indianapolis.
Finalists of the American Pianists Awards in Indianapolis, Ind.
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Finalists of the American Pianists Awards in Indianapolis, Ind.
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Three of the finalists — Caelan Cardello, Esteban Castro and Isaiah J. Thompson — got here up collectively by way of the jazz training pipeline in New Jersey, through organizations like Jazz Home Youngsters (the place our host, Christian McBride, serves as inventive director). In order that they relate extra as mates than rivals. The identical is true of Paul Cornish, who was born and raised in Houston, and Thomas Linger, who hails from Waynesville, N.C. As Castro aptly places it: “This actually looks like a household.”
After all, it is also nonetheless a contest. For those who do not already know who emerged as the most recent Cole Porter Fellow, we can’t spoil the outcomes till the top of the present. So you’ll be able to hear and decide for your self. The sky-high high quality of the music is bound to make {that a} robust name — even because it brings glad tidings that the way forward for jazz piano is in succesful palms.
Musicians:
Rhythm part: Nick Tucker, bass; Kenny Phelps, drums
Pianists: Caelan Cardello, Esteban Castro, Paul Cornish, Thomas Linger, Isaiah J. Thompson
Set Checklist:
- It is All Proper With Me (Cole Porter)
- Rakin’ and Scrapin’ (Harold Mabern)
- You Go to My Head (J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie)
- In Walked Bud (Thelonious Monk)
- A Star is Born (Paul Cornish)
- Funky Blues (Johnny Hodges)
Credit:
Nate Chinen, author; Trevor Smith, producer; Lee Mergner, subject producer; Ron Scalzo, episode combine; Suraya Mohamed, undertaking supervisor; Keith Jenkins, vice chairman of visuals and technique at NPR Music; Anya Grundmann, government producer; Christian McBride, host.
Particular due to Lee Clifford and Don Lucoff
