Piano Divas: Milestones of Jazz Legends
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Label: Documents
Cat No: 600534
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 10
Genre: Jazz
Release Date: 8th November 2019
Contents
Artists
Lil Hardin ArmstrongToshiko Akiyoshi
Mary Lou Williams
Barbara Carroll
Nina Simone
Hadda Brooks
Jutta Hipp
Hazel Scott
Artists
Lil Hardin ArmstrongToshiko Akiyoshi
Mary Lou Williams
Barbara Carroll
Nina Simone
Hadda Brooks
Jutta Hipp
Hazel Scott
About
Louis Armstrong’s recordings of his Hot 5 and Hot 7s of the 1920s, with Hardin as pianist and a repertoire to which she contributed world-famous compositions, are among the milestones in jazz history. She remained a very active musician even after the divorce. The outstanding female musician of the swing and bebop era was Mary Lou Williams. From the 1940s, the stylistic range of the many wonderful female piano players gathered here was getting ever wider. Boogie Queen Hadda Brooks, Dorothy Donegan, Beryl Booker, Hazel Scott and Nina Simone all combine soul with class, playing in a more modern style were Barbara Carroll, Lorraine Geller, Bertha Hope and Toshiko Akiyoshi from Japan, as well as the German Jutta Hipp. All of them were excellent individualists, whose music definitely deserves to be heard again.
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