
Marian McPartland
英国著名资深女爵士钢琴家Marian McPartland玛蕊安·麦克帕特兰德是美国一档经久不衰的爵士广播节目Piano Jazz的主持人,四十年代便出道,被人们誉为“爵士钢琴第一夫人”。 by Scott YanowMarian McPartland has become famous for hosting her Piano Jazz radio program since 1978, but she was a well-respected pianist decades before. She played in a four-piano vaudeville act in England and performed on the European continent for the troops during World War II. In Belgium in 1944, she met cornetist Jimmy McPartland and they soon married. Marian moved with her husband to the United States in 1946, where she sometimes played with him even though her style was more modern than his Dixieland-oriented groups. McPartland eventually had her own trio at the Embers (1950) and the Hickory House (1952-1960), which until 1957 included drummer Joe Morello. She recorded regularly for Savoy and Capitol during the 1950s and also made sessions for Argo (1958), Ti...