American Pianists Awards sneak preview

Grammy-winning jazz vocalist Kurt Elling emcees an evening of solo jazz piano at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola at Jazz at Lincoln Center. Five finalists for the 2019 American Pianists Awards perform the following pieces in set two:

Emmet Cohen

  1. Original Rags (Scott Joplin)
  2. I Remember Clifford (Benny Golson)

Billy Test

  1. Slow Boat to China (Frank Loesser)
  2. To Be (original)

Kenny Banks Jr.

  1. Georgia on My Mind (Hoagie Carmichael)
  2. Take Five (Paul Desmond)

Keelan Dimick

  1. Nobody Else but Me (Jerome Kern)
  2. Deep in Cerebration (orig.)

Dave Meder

  1. This Road Leads Nowhere (orig.)
  2. Alfie (Burt Bacharach)

 

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