Joanne Brackeen Solo Piano at

Joanne Brackeen is a Yamaha artist who was honored with the 2014 BNY Mellon Living Legacy Award at The Kennedy Center.

She is one of jazz s most prized possessions: a virtuoso pianist and master composer who epitomizes the history and evolution of Jazz from traditional to free, and everything in between; all with a contemporary edge.

"Joanne, has the chops to command the entire instrument. And she swings surely and deeply while she hears ahead and around corners in finding harmonies that are personal and yet sound universal." Nat Hentoff

Often, the test of a pianist's meddle is whether she can play solo piano.Joanne Brackeen's piano style is easy to describe - it's emotive and filled with playful imagery. In the space of one solo, Brackeen can take you romping through a forest, get you ambushed by gnomes and dwarfs, and then lead you giggling away down the trail as you escape their clutches."...

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Joanne Brackeen is a Yamaha artist who was honored with the 2014 BNY Mellon Living Legacy Award at The Kennedy Center.

She is one of jazz s most prized possessions: a virtuoso pianist and master composer who epitomizes the history and evolution of Jazz from traditional to free, and everything in between; all with a contemporary edge.

"Joanne, has the chops to command the entire instrument. And she swings surely and deeply while she hears ahead and around corners in finding harmonies that are personal and yet sound universal." Nat Hentoff

Often, the test of a pianist's meddle is whether she can play solo piano.Joanne Brackeen's piano style is easy to describe - it's emotive and filled with playful imagery. In the space of one solo, Brackeen can take you romping through a forest, get you ambushed by gnomes and dwarfs, and then lead you giggling away down the trail as you escape their clutches."
Michael G. Nastos, Ann Arbor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3mTrBHRQPA

www.joannebrackeenjazz.com

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