Shall We Play That One Together?
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Shall We Play That One Together?

The Life and Art of Jazz Piano Legend Marian McPartland, With a New Preface

  1. 516 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Shall We Play That One Together?

The Life and Art of Jazz Piano Legend Marian McPartland, With a New Preface

About this book

The life of the unparalleled purveyor of the Great American Songbook, Marian McPartland, is celebrated in this engrossing biography

From Bobby Short to Esperanza Spalding, across the 33-year run of the acclaimed radio show Piano Jazz, Marian McPartland conversed and played piano duets with jazz greats and, via National Public Radio syndication, brought the best of jazz standards to listeners. In Shall We Play That One Together?, Paul de Barros considers McPartland's full life and shows her to have been a courageous compositional innovator as well as an immensely talented popularizer and educator. Her standing among jazz artists and her advocacy for women jazz musicians made McPartland a natural to host Piano Jazz show, conceived in 1978, and first broadcast on WLTR out of Columbia, South Carolina, in 1979. That show secured her reputation in the musical form and allowed her to introduce American and then global audiences to a diverse array of musicians developing the Great American Songbook.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Shall We Play That One Together?
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. Preface
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. 1. “What Shall We Do with Her?”
  10. 2. London
  11. 3. “Oh, No! A Girl Piano Player!”
  12. 4. Jimmy: “I Like You, Kid”
  13. 5. Windy City Apprentice
  14. 6. Getting to First Base with Three Strikes
  15. 7. New York’s Golden Age of Jazz, Part I
  16. 8. New York’s Golden Age of Jazz, Part II
  17. 9. Loss
  18. 10. Long Island Retreat
  19. 11. Lost … and Found
  20. 12. The Jazz Renaissance
  21. 13. Piano Jazz
  22. 14. Heyday
  23. 15. Exit Jimmy
  24. 16. Sweet Times
  25. Notes
  26. Bibliography
  27. Selected Recordings
  28. Index