Marian McPartland - In A Mist

In a Mist McPartland Marian 1974

[thanks to boberwig on dailymotion]

Pianist Marian McPartland plays a tune composed by Bix Beiderbecke. He recorded "In the Mist" in 1927.
Margaret Marian Turner was born in England on March 21, 1918 near Slough, Buckinghamshire. As a child, young Marian Turner approached the piano around the age of three. While gaining proficiency on her own, she often provided musical entertainment at family gatherings. Her parents, however, enrolled Marian in violin lessons. Marian's enrollment in a boarding school ended her doomed attempt at playing the violin, and she eventually ended up at the famous London Guildhall School of Music where she studied piano and composition.
Marian was introduced to jazz by a boyfriend who often brought jazz records to her house. For hours they would listen to the music of Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, and others. From that point on, Marian was hooked on jazz. In 1943, Marian began playing in USO camp shows in Belgium and France, where she met a Chicago cornetist named Jimmy McPartland, a Bix Beiderbeck protege. In 1952, Marian's trio began what was to become a long-running gig at New York's Hickory House, where many legendary musicians to whom Marian had once listened often sat in the audience listening to Marian.
In 1978, Marian began hosting her own radio program for National Public Radio and South Carolina Educational Radio: Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz. Marian's most recently released CD on the Concord Jazz label is Just Friends, featuring jazz greats-- Tommy Flanagan, Renee Rosnes, George Shearing, Geri Allen, Dave Brubeck, and Gene Harris--playing duets with Marian. Additionally, a CD titled Portraits was released on the NPR label in the summer of 1999. This CD, as suggested by the title, is a compendium of Marian's musical portraits of several guests on Piano Jazz.

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• Beiderbecke

[TheMikester307]

My favorite interview on her show was the one with husband JimmyMcP. Just two old friends happily chatting about old times and old friends. And, MY GOD!! Every name they dropped was a legend. Bix, Louis, Duke...

[rca88]

Well, Marian is in the front row of that classic photo of about 50 jazz greats on the steps of a building in Harlem. Last night on Piano Jazz, she talked about the Hickory House Trio. One night McCoy Tyner walked in, and she just about died from nervousness. The bass player was looking down, and Joe Morelo couldn't see well, so they didn't know Tyner was there. She decided not to tell them, or they'd have 3 nervous musicians instead of 1. It was like that when Duke or Benny came in, too.

[utubuser10]

Marian McPartland is an international treasure. She is no mean pianist, improviser and composer, but what really sets her apart is her bringing this "jazz" thing to focus in her lively, informative and entertaining weekly show, "Piano Jazz." Bravo, Ms. McPartland.

[vlndv]

First, this is jazz! Second, Bix never wrote it down himself, it was transcribed by Bill Challis. The middle section was added later at the publisher's request (again transcribed by Challis.) If anything, Marian's version is even better than the original. No one will ever surpass Bix's cornet playing though.

[barrymore]

I interviewed Mrs. McPartland a few years ago while searching for information about Charlie "Quiet" Queener - pianist from my hometown of Pineville, Ky - to use in my book, "Bell County, Kentucky - A Brief History. She was a most gracious and charming lady.

[utubuser10]

@M72westend i forgive you.

[busterthebowlcat]

She is a splendid pianist!

[vlndv]

@M72westend I appreciate your enthusiasm for Bix. To the best of my knowledge he only recorded four times on piano, none of them much over 3 minutes. They're marvelous performances, but I wouldn't say unsurpassed.

[M72westend]

@vlndv Sorry, no one will ever surpass Bix's original anything - - piano or cornet.

[aaronamccoy]

something about marian

[Ringo84]

Does anyone happen to know the name of the song played as the theme song to 'Piano Jazz'? I'd love to download it.

[conticris]

Bix would surely be pleased.