Marian McPartland
Marian McPartland
Margaret Marian McPartland, OBE, was an English-American jazz pianist, composer and writer. She was the host of Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz on National Public Radio from 1978 to 2011...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPianist
Date of Birth20 March 1918
thinking stuff records
Well it's because the record companies are pumping away with their commercial stuff. I think it's a shame.
thinking hands piano
My hands look terrible but I can do anything I want to do, so, you know, I just think I'm playing all around with more good taste and not dashing up and down the piano.
thinking i-can ifs
So if I think of something in my head I don't have to do it. If I can't do I don't do it, I do something else.
thinking brain might
It's awful to have to, but I've started thinking about that, you know. 86. I'm thinking, well, maybe I might make it to 90. At least I'd like to have my brains.
anyone ballad known slowly
I've never known anyone that could do a ballad that slowly and keep it musical, keep it happening.
both bringing call chicago guys rhythm
Well, I'm bringing what I like to call my Chicago rhythm section: They both live there and those are the guys I use when I'm in the mid-west.
although listeners
Although I do feel that with a show like ours we ourselves are getting a lot more young listeners at concerts.
ask both bring europe music pick recently rehearsal terrible thick time tunes whether worried
Madeleine called me from Europe recently and was worried about whether we'd have rehearsal time before we go on, which, of course, we will. One thing I did ask of her was that she not bring a thick sheaf of music with her. I'm a terrible reader, so we'll pick tunes we both know,
bit deal everybody seems sounds
Everybody seems to think Madeleine sounds like Billie Holiday, ... I think that's OK, but it's really not all that important an observation. She sounds a little bit like Billie to me, but that's not anything to make a big deal about it.
calls casual dates evening jason jazz played together turns
that evening with 30-year-old Jason Moran. It turns out they've played together before -- on McPartland's show, at the Monterey Jazz Festival, and on what McPartland calls ''several casual dates here and there.
music tunes millions
There are a million good tunes.
space house kitchen
The house is in turmoil with records on every space. In the kitchen and in the dining room is covered with records. I don't have a big enough house to accommodate everything.
house risk needs
At the risk of being a fuddy-duddy I don't have a computer; I don't have e-mail; and I really don't need something in my house that I would be sitting in front of for hours.
long fax mail
So I have a friend who works for me once a week. She's got e-mail, so anybody that must send an e-mail, they send it to her and she faxes it to me. Sounds like a long way of doing things, but it works for me.