{"id":176436026,"date":"2014-05-02T00:05:47","date_gmt":"2014-05-02T05:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/?p=176436026"},"modified":"2014-05-02T00:05:47","modified_gmt":"2014-05-02T05:05:47","slug":"video-the-history-of-jazz-piano-in-11-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/2014\/05\/02\/video-the-history-of-jazz-piano-in-11-minutes\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: The History Of Jazz Piano  In 11 Minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/npr-music.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-176436027\" alt=\"npr music\" src=\"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/npr-music.jpg\" width=\"144\" height=\"41\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nApril 24, 2014<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: xx-large;\">The History Of Jazz Piano <\/span><\/h1>\n<h1><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: xx-large;\">In 11 Minutes<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"story-meta\">\n<div id=\"storybyline\">\n<div id=\"res306513335\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\"><strong>by\u00a0PATRICK JARENWATTANANON<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"storytext\">\n<div id=\"res306516091\">\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Evidently, pianist Kris Bowers' bookshelf includes James Baldwin's uncollected writings and Robin Kelley's biography of Thelonious Monk.\" alt=\"Evidently, pianist Kris Bowers' bookshelf includes James Baldwin's uncollected writings and Robin Kelley's biography of Thelonious Monk.\" src=\"http:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2014\/04\/24\/kb-122de256ae3b1b549a62e5c33103d78ccee23fec-s4-c85.jpg\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Evidently, pianist Kris Bowers&#8217; bookshelf includes James Baldwin&#8217;s uncollected writings and Robin Kelley&#8217;s biography of Thelonious Monk.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Janette Beckman\/Courtesy of the artist<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Ever since &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dMH0bHeiRNg\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Evolution of Dance<\/span><\/a>,&#8221; YouTube and videos which condense an entire canon into minutes have seemed made for each other. Except here it&#8217;s not just some dude who can shake it, but pianist Kris Bowers, a Thelonious Monk Competition\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/ablogsupreme\/2011\/09\/13\/140436099\/pianist-kris-bowers-wins-2011-thelonious-monk-competition\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">winner<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and highly sought-after young gun. Here, alongside YouTube history veterans CDZA, he provides an overview of jazz piano styles from the late 1800s to the present day.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"res306516115\">\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IstFVThvo1A?rel=0\" height=\"351\" width=\"624\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">YouTube<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Bowers takes us from ragtime to stride to bebop and beyond, with plenty of stops for individual stylists and jazz&#8217;s extended family along the way. This particular narrative is heads-up enough to include influential present-day players like\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/artists\/14999787\/brad-mehldau\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Brad Mehldau<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/artists\/15340491\/jason-moran\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Jason Moran<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/artists\/15396311\/robert-glasper\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Robert Glasper<\/span><\/a>. It&#8217;s a great illustration of jazz&#8217;s living, breathing, overlapping history \u2014 remember, all this happened in barely more than 100 years!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">We should probably note that there are a few factual errors and debatable omissions before the jazz commentariat does. The producer here also seems to have a thing for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/artists\/15294441\/herbie-hancock\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Herbie Hancock<\/span><\/a>\u00a0(so do I, but, I mean). And I have yet to see anyone perform a good imitation of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/artists\/15130415\/thelonious-monk\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Thelonious Monk<\/span><\/a>&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Whatever, this is charming. Huge props to Bowers and the band for learning and pulling off all that music. And if you want to see how he&#8217;s internalized this history and merged it with his own, his new debut album is called\u00a0<em>Heroes + Misfits<\/em>, which you can\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/krisbowers\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">sample via Soundcloud<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&gt;via:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/ablogsupreme\/2014\/04\/24\/306513332\/the-history-of-jazz-piano-in-11-minutes\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/ablogsupreme\/2014\/04\/24\/306513332\/the-history-of-jazz-piano-in-11-minutes<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; April 24, 2014 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The History Of Jazz Piano In 11 Minutes &nbsp; by\u00a0PATRICK JARENWATTANANON Evidently, pianist Kris Bowers&#8217; bookshelf includes James Baldwin&#8217;s uncollected writings and Robin Kelley&#8217;s biography of Thelonious Monk. Janette Beckman\/Courtesy of the artist Ever since &#8220;Evolution of Dance,&#8221; YouTube and videos which condense an entire canon into minutes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[6],"tags":[4,12,11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176436026"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176436026"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176436026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176436042,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176436026\/revisions\/176436042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176436026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176436026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176436026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}