photo by Mark Sheldon/DownBeat
Are you having any fun? Larry Goldings certainly is. My profile of the great organist/pianist from February 2024.
Category Archives: Larry Goldings
Larry Goldings – The Variety of Fun (DownBeat)
Filed under Brad Mehldau, John Scofield, Larry Goldings, Larry Klein, Peter Bernstein
Newport Jazz Festival Aimed to Please All (DownBeat.com)
(Photo: Mark Sheldon)
For my birthday weekend, I gave myself a present and an assignment – review the 2023 Newport Jazz Festival. Here’s the result, at DownBeat Magazine. The nation’s oldest jazz festival was never only about jazz. This year’s edition presented the full gamut of jazz and “jazz-adjacent” music, including big personalities like Samara Joy, Jon Batiste, and Herbie Hancock.
Filed under Bill Charlap, Bob Dorough, Branford Marsalis, Camille Thurman, Charles McPherson, Christian McBride, Derrick Hodge, Diana Krall, George Wein, Herbie Hancock, Jon Batiste, Kenny Washington, Kurt Elling, Larry Goldings, Lionel Loueke, Louis Armstrong, Marquis Hill, Newport Jazz Festival, Quincy Jones, Ray Charles
Larry Goldings is Becoming the Victor Borge of Jazz (JazzTimes, August 2021)
More than a gifted pianist, organist, and 20-yr member of James Taylor’s band, Larry Goldings is also the brilliant comic mind behind the viral CPAC “national anthem” video and, as most jazz fans know, the madcap “Hans Groiner” character, an “expert” on Thelonious Monk’s music who “improves it by making it more relaxing and less offensive to the ear.” Many thanks to Mac Randall of JazzTimes for publishing my interview with Larry. (BTW, don’t miss the priceless “Groiner interview” – an Easter egg embedded within the article.) #LarryGoldings #HansGroiner #JamesTaylor
Filed under Hans Groiner, James Taylor, Jazz Times, Larry Goldings, Peter Bernstein, Victor Borge
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