Andre previn biography jazz piano
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André Previn died yesterday [February 28, ] at the age of 89 and the editorial staff at JazzProfiles wanted to memorialize him on these pages by re-posting this piece about the early years of his career when he lived in California before moving on to international fame as a "serious" musician [whatever that means].
I recently came across a copy of the Ballads CD that André Previn made for Angel Records and from which the above photograph by Joanne O&#;Brien is taken.
The CD was nestled right next to a slew of solo piano and trio recordings that André had made for Les Koenig&#;s Contemporary Records label, primarily in the s and 60s.
André plays beautiful, solo piano on the Ballads disc and while wondering how I came to know about the recording in the first place, I found a post-it note affixed to the CD insert booklet that referred me to an article in the late &#; Jazzletter, a self-ow
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André Previn
German-American conductor, pianist, and composer (–)
Musical artist
André George Previn (; born Andreas Ludwig Priwin; April 6, – February 28, )[1][2] was a German-American pianist, composer, and conductor. His career had three major genres: Hollywood films, jazz, and classical music. In each he achieved success, and the latter two were part of his life until the end. In movies, he arranged and composed music. In jazz, he was a celebrated trio pianist, a piano-accompanist to singers of standards, and pianist-interpreter of songs from the "Great American Songbook". In classical music, he also performed as a pianist but gained television fame as a conductor, and during his last thirty years created his legacy as a composer of art music.
Before the age of twenty, Previn began arranging and composing for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He would go on to be involved in the music of more than fifty films and would win four Academy Awards. He won ten Grammy
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André Previn started playing jazz as a teenager, having studied classical piano for many of his formative years. In the early s, he was blown away bygd the bebop of Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie parkerar. By , he was performing with some of those bebop masters. In , Previn made his own jazz history. Along with drummer Shelley Manne and bass player Leroy Vinegar, he recorded the first jazz version of a huvudgata score for “My Fair Lady.” It was the first jazz album to sell one million copies.
Conductor, composer, and pianist André Previn has received a number of awards and honors for his outstanding musical accomplishments. He holds both the Austrian and German Cross of Merit, was honored by the Kennedy Center for his lifetime achievements, and was knighted bygd Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in He was presented the Glenn Gould Prize in Toronto on March 14, He has received several Grammy awards for his recordings. Most re