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Female Jazz Pianists, Anybody? Don't feel like writing a loooong ass essay about the ones I dig. But here're my fave ones,,,,
 -Camille Howard
 -Hadda Brooks
 -Mary Lou Williams
 -Hazel Scott | |
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my favorites are more recent, but I realize that's only because I've heard more of their work...I need to check out originals like Mary Lou Williams and Hazel Scott more closely...
 Geri Allen  Patrice Rushen  Amina Claudine Meyers
 Tania Maria  Rachel Z(Rachel Nicolazzo)
... [Edited 3/20/05 12:35pm] " I've got six things on my mind --you're no longer one of them." - Paddy McAloon, Prefab Sprout | |
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Tania Maria is still bad as hell,,,Outrageously Wild gets a heavy rotation treatment from me 
'Trice is as bad too. She came to our Jr. High in a music class(Along with Brenda Russell), she was lecturing us about the bending tricks, rich chordes and the whole shebang. I was  when she pre4med Fats Waller's "Handful Of Keys" for us. I honestly didn't know that she was THAT wild  | |
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Harlepolis said: Tania Maria is still bad as hell,,,Outrageously Wild gets a heavy rotation treatment from me
'Trice is as bad too. She came to our Jr. High in a music class(Along with Brenda Russell), she was lecturing us about the bending tricks, rich chordes and the whole shebang. I was when she pre4med Fats Waller's "Handful Of Keys" for us. I honestly didn't know that she was THAT wild  That must have been Koool!! I would love to see any of them live...." I've got six things on my mind --you're no longer one of them." - Paddy McAloon, Prefab Sprout | |
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Harlepolis said: Don't feel like writing a loooong ass essay about the ones I dig. But here're my fave ones,,,,
-Mary Lou Williams
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I'll play it first and tell you what it is later. -Miles Davis- | |
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you might find this hard to believe, but....
she studied and performed jazz piano with ornette coleman, and covers his music in her shows to this day. | |
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Harlepolis said: Don't feel like writing a loooong ass essay about the ones I dig.
 I resemble that remark!
Anyway, you've already listed the usual suspects. And y'all already know how I feel about this lady... 
...Tania Maria tA  Tribal Disorder
http://www.soundclick.com...rmusic.htm "Ya see, we're not interested in what you know...but what you are willing to learn. C'mon y'all." | |
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what about Rachel Ferrell? | |
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Maybe y'all have heard of this female . . . she seemed to kinda know her way around a piano. | |
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Tania Maria...
Eliane Elias... 
and Geri Allen  Been gone for a minute, now I'm back with the jump off | |
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trashoblanco said:
Maybe y'all have heard of this female . . . she seemed to kinda know her way around a piano. Damn str8
Her piano reading of "Strange Fruit" is heartwrenching  and that solo from "Sinner Man" is just wild as it gets | |
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Ifsixwuz9 said: Harlepolis said: Don't feel like writing a loooong ass essay about the ones I dig. But here're my fave ones,,,,
-Mary Lou Williams
I only have a couple of Mary Lou Williams tunes on a record called 'Kansas City Piano 1936-1941' that my grandpa gave me when I was three(!). . .she definitely interests me, what else would you recommend by her? | |
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trashoblanco said: Ifsixwuz9 said: I only have a couple of Mary Lou Williams tunes on a record called 'Kansas City Piano 1936-1941' that my grandpa gave me when I was three(!). . .she definitely interests me, what else would you recommend by her? This is her most IMPORTANT album to date, start with this and on to the rest,, 
This is another FAVE of mine(I always play this when I'm cooking or inviting friends over and they would always ask me about it),,  | |
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trashoblanco said: Ifsixwuz9 said: I only have a couple of Mary Lou Williams tunes on a record called 'Kansas City Piano 1936-1941' that my grandpa gave me when I was three(!). . .she definitely interests me, what else would you recommend by her? I need to go look at my cds. I liked Zodiac but there is another album that I preferred much better that I can't call the name of right now. Ha! found it. "Zoning" released in 1974. . [Edited 3/21/05 15:58pm] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I'll play it first and tell you what it is later. -Miles Davis- | |
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trashoblanco said:
Maybe y'all have heard of this female . . . she seemed to kinda know her way around a piano. Absolutely!! And I have this album. I also saw Nina Simone perform at a small club in Chicago years ago. She was unbelievable live! Don't forget Roberta Flack..... Never trust anything spoken in the presence of an erection.
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Harlepolis said: trashoblanco said: I only have a couple of Mary Lou Williams tunes on a record called 'Kansas City Piano 1936-1941' that my grandpa gave me when I was three(!). . .she definitely interests me, what else would you recommend by her? This is another FAVE of mine(I always play this when I'm cooking or inviting friends over and they would always ask me about it),, Oooh. I'm going ot have to check this one out. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I'll play it first and tell you what it is later. -Miles Davis- | |
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OK, so she may not be a sistah, but at least she's keeping the tradition alive.  NEW WAVE FOREVER: SLAVE TO THE WAVE FROM THE CRADLE TO THE GRAVE. | |
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Lillian "Lil" Harden Armstrong
Lil was not only one of the first important female jazz pianists, she also was a member of one of the first important jazz bands, King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band. 
She went on to marry one of her bandmates, Louis Armstrong.  [Edited 3/21/05 21:31pm] a psychotic is someone who just figured out what's going on | |
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At your suggestion, I bought and love this album:
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Stax said: Lillian "Lil" Harden Armstrong
Lil was not only one of the first important female jazz pianists, she also was a member of one of the first important jazz bands, King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band.
She went on to marry one of her bandmates, Louis Armstrong.
[Edited 3/21/05 21:31pm] Saw a late 1960's footage of her in Ken Burns's PBS movie Jazz talking about Satchmo. She was the one who basicaly pushed him to get out of the King Oliver orchestra and make something of himself solo. She was a real TOUGH black woman | |
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 This thread is a dream! I think female pianists are HOT!!!
That said, Nina Simone was a BADASS on the piano! Also don't forget Alice COltrane! | |
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Eliane Elias anyone? I will do today what you won't, so tomorrow I can do what you can't. | |
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She's labeld as a "Smooth Jazz" pianist, and sounds more "New Agey", but she is my favorite....
Keiko Matsui 
(It probably helps that she's a red hot Asian babe...) -->> This Space 4 Rent <<--
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