AAJ- Feb online (Irving Fields)

[elliott_simon <elliott_simon...>]

Hi....the AAJ Feb issue is now available for download at
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/newyork/aaj_ny_200402.pdf

below is the promo piece for the article on Irving Fields......Feb's 
issue also contains a CD review of Borah Bergman's Tzadik CD....in a 
few weeks all should be available directly on line at the 
website...www.allaboutjazz.com....I also just learned that we will be 
covering the KM/Caine concert at Carnegie Hall on the 25th with a 
CD/concert review combo that I will be doing....best to all, Elliott


*(Encore by Elliott Simon) - Pianist/composer/arranger IRVING FIELDS is 
a musical treasure of NYC and one of the finest players you will come 
across in New York's seemingly revitalizing hotel/society 
room/cocktail/lounge jazz scene. Pianist Anthony Coleman acknowledges 
and openly admits the influence Fields has played in his music and 
beyond by saying, "He has a couple of perfectly played klezmer clarinet 
riffs that function as signifiers...I've stolen them all. He's like 
Ahmad Jamal - he just knows what will work on piano in a trio context 
and what won't...The master!" The 89-year old is presently composing a 
tribute, representing his 82nd album, and still plays regularly at the 
East River Cafe three days a week!

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