Keith Jarrett’s wish-list for his eighth birthday contained a walkie-talkie, a piano and an elephant. That he got the piano was a huge surprise – so one can only imagine his response had he received the elephant. In fact his own recitals had paid for the instrument, the seven-year-old’s repertoire…
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She wasn’t even a jazz singer. She was a guitar-strumming folk singer who fled Maine for the big time in New York. The big time gave her a contract, one album, and then spat her out, but she kept plugging away, falling into a relationship with the Paul Motian Trio’s…