Sunday "meet The Artist" Jazz Series - Winard Harper Presents Richard Wyands at Moore's Lounge

Sunday’s special guest provides a great opportunity to listen to a stellar pianist play from his vast repertoire and recount his days as house band at the Black Hawk in the 1950’s, accompanying Art Tatum, Erroll Garner and a host of others, recording some of their finest albums with Charles Mingus, Roland Kirk, Oliver Nelson, Gene Ammons, Kenny Burrell and Eddie “Lockjaw* Davies, Frank Foster, Roy Hanes, Gigi Gryce in the 1960’, accompanying female superstars Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holliday, Dinah Washington, Carmen McRae and Etta Jones. Also interesting: how as a boy, counting Cal Tjader and Jerome Richardson among his early friends, he made the jump from classic to Jazz, knowing exactly how he wanted to play a tune (tasteful), like Nat King Cole, with whom he did ultimately perform, and in his early teens played in some real tough joints in the bay area before he graduated from college with a degree in music...

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Sunday’s special guest provides a great opportunity to listen to a stellar pianist play from his vast repertoire and recount his days as house band at the Black Hawk in the 1950’s, accompanying Art Tatum, Erroll Garner and a host of others, recording some of their finest albums with Charles Mingus, Roland Kirk, Oliver Nelson, Gene Ammons, Kenny Burrell and Eddie “Lockjaw* Davies, Frank Foster, Roy Hanes, Gigi Gryce in the 1960’, accompanying female superstars Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holliday, Dinah Washington, Carmen McRae and Etta Jones. Also interesting: how as a boy, counting Cal Tjader and Jerome Richardson among his early friends, he made the jump from classic to Jazz, knowing exactly how he wanted to play a tune (tasteful), like Nat King Cole, with whom he did ultimately perform, and in his early teens played in some real tough joints in the bay area before he graduated from college with a degree in music. Richard Wyands is one of the very important pianists of our age and what an inspiration.

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