Name: Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz with Guest Teddy Wilson
Brand: Jazz Alliance
SKU: 847521
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Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz with Guest Teddy Wilson

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Album: Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz with Guest Teddy Wilson
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Stompin' at the Savoy
2)	Conversation
3)	Medley: Sophisticated Lady/Don't Get Around Much Anymore
4)	Conversation
5)	I'll Remember April
6)	Conversation
7)	Medley: Lush Life/Take the 'A' Train
8)	Conversation
9)	Marian's Motif
10)	Conversation
11)	Traumerie
12)	Conversation
13)	Moonglow
14)	Conversation
15)	Flying Home
16)	Conversation

Album: Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz with Guest Teddy Wilson
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Stompin' at the Savoy
2)	Conversation
3)	Medley: Sophisticated Lady/Don't Get Around Much Anymore
4)	Conversation
5)	I'll Remember April
6)	Conversation
7)	Medley: Lush Life/Take the 'A' Train
8)	Conversation
9)	Marian's Motif
10)	Conversation
11)	Traumerie
12)	Conversation
13)	Moonglow
14)	Conversation
15)	Flying Home
16)	Conversation

Performer Notes

Personnel: Marian McPartland (piano); Marian McPartland, Teddy Wilson.
Liner Note Author: Robert L. Doerschuk.
Recording information: 11/05/1978.
Photographers: Hans Harzheim; Barbara Bordnick.
One of Marian McPartland's first guests in her long-running NPR radio series was Teddy Wilson, an old friend with whom she had occasionally played and also recorded a duo album for her own Halcyon label. She gets Wilson to talk about his trademark left handed runs that were so important to his style, along with his excitement at hearing classical jazz pianist Vladimir Horowitz in concert at the White House earlier in the year, prompting him to play Robert Schumann's "Tr?umerei" (from Kinderscenen). Of course, Wilson's style hadn't changed significantly since his tenure with Benny Goodman, though there is nothing wrong with that, though McPartland builds an impressive improvisation, "Marian's Motif," that is based upon a brief musical phrase that Wilson suggested during the taping. Their duets are just as much fun, including delightful romps through "I'll Remember April" and "Flying Home." [Note: this CD is a straight reissue of the earlier 1985 Jazz Alliance release, with a change in the cover art.] ~ Ken Dryden