Past Programs
Piano and Keyboard - 2008
Marc Copland { repeat 1st aired on 22.7.07 }
06/07/2008
Marc Copland is a very lyrical, sensitive pianist. He’s adventurous, too. There are plenty of louder, busier improvising keyboardists, but very few so creative and consistently eloquent. Time Within Time is a sublime solo set. Bookends is an equally compelling double-CD of studio and concert duets with saxophonist David Liebman. Copland’s pianistic ‘voice’ is as distinctive as any singer’s, his ‘touch’as tender as any lover’s.
Marc has an informative website (especially the ‘interview with Marc’) :
www.marccopland.com
Fats Domino {all-star tribute to him. Repeat: 1st aired 6.10.07}
05/07/2008
Happily, rumours of Fats Domino’s death proved untrue. He was dramatically rescued five days after Hurricane Katrina lashed New Orleans. His possessions are mostly gone, but the fat man is alive, kicking and still giving. After donating proceeds from his latest ‘live’ recording to a charity, he then invited an extraordinary array of famous admirers to salute him and thereby help fund a new community centre and Music Co-Op in the impoverished/devastated Lower 9th Ward. The double CD Goin’ Home: a Tribute to Fats Domino needs no ‘charity’ from critical ears; it is enormously more enjoyable than most such all-star tributes.
Two good places to discover more about Fats Domino:
For general info: www.fatsonline.nl/
For a taste of the man’s attitude, post-Katrina: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/28/arts/28fats.html?_r=1&ex=1189483200&en=43ba1e2ffe4b8e1e&ei=5070&oref=slogin
