As her son finishes high school and prepares to leave for college, Michelle Cruz Gonzales looks back on his early years as a pianist and anticipates a future without the sound of his playing filling the house.
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Shelved: Bill Evans’ Loose Blues
An album that took five months to record sat in the vault for 20 years before finally getting pressed to vinyl.
The Brief Career and Self-Imposed Exile of Jutta Hipp, Jazz Pianist
Europe’s “First Lady of Jazz” moved to New York in 1955, played for five more years, then disappeared — while royalty checks piled up with her record label.
His Heart, Her Hands: A Pianist Helps a Musician with Fading Memory to Save the Songs in His Head
Steve Goodwin was a talented musician, but he never recorded or wrote anything down. As his memory began to fade, his family found a professional pianist to help save the music in his head.
His Heart, Her Hands: A Pianist Helps a Musician with Fading Memory to Save the Songs in His Head
Steve Goodwin was a talented musician, but he never recorded or wrote anything down. As his memory began to fade, his family found a professional pianist to help save the music in his head.
His Heart, Her Hands
Steve Goodwin was a talented musician, but he had never recorded or written anything down. As his memory began to fade, his family found a professional pianist, Naomi LaViolette, to work with him to save the music in his head.