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Composing and/or improvising, Caine is able

Uri Caine is a musician, period — writing it down or making it up on keyboards as he goes along, as the gig or commission demands.


Taking jazz-like liberties interpreting works of Bach, Wagner and Mahler or crafting his own scores for specific results are points on a continuum, says Philly-educated, internationally acclaimed pianist Uri Caine. Tonight (Fri Feb 8) he premieres “Double Trouble,” a piano concerto written for the American Composers Orchestra, at Zankel Hall of Carnegie Hall, creating his piano parts in the moment while the larger ensemble hews to what he wrote. Here’s my interview with a practicing genre-defier and definer.
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Howard Mandel

I'm a Chicago-born (and after 32 years in NYC, recently repatriated) writer, editor, author, arts reporter for National Public Radio, consultant and nascent videographer -- a veteran freelance journalist working on newspapers, magazines and websites, appearing on tv and radio, teaching at New York University and elsewhere, consulting on media, publishing and jazz-related issues. I'm president of the Jazz Journalists Association, a non-profit membership organization devoted to using all media to disseminate news and views about all kinds of jazz.
My books are Future Jazz (Oxford U Press, 1999) and Miles Ornette Cecil - Jazz Beyond Jazz (Routledge, 2008). I was general editor of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Jazz and Blues (Flame Tree 2005/Billboard Books 2006). Of course I'm working on something new. . . Read More…

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