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Aaron Diehl’s sophomore effort for Mack Avenue finds the American Pianists Association 2011 Cole Porter Fellow expanding his compositional voice on an intergenerational date. The leader augments his usual working trio with cameo appearances by hornplayers, young and old, on four of eight tracks.
[Aaron] Diehl said the decision to collaborate with 86-year-old tenor saxophonist Benny Golson and 85-year-old baritone saxophonist Joe Temperley was about more than paying tribute to jazz’s history and two of the genre’s legends.
Throughout their musical partnership (including 2015’s Grammy-winning “For One to Love”) pianist Aaron Diehl and singer Cécile McLorin Salvant have shared a knack for the theatrical.
Two guys walk into a bar. They might even be frenemies, as pianist Aaron Diehl joked to the audience, but they would have something in common — jazz-imbued music. If Ferdinand “Jelly Roll” Morton and George Gershwin had met in history, the result would be spectacular.
The acclaimed jazz pianist and composer Aaron Diehl played an animated and uncommonly sensitive account of Gershwin’s Piano Concerto in F. The New York Symphony Society, which merged with the Philharmonic in 1928, gave the premiere of this concerto in 1925 with Gershwin at the piano, so, officially the orchestra can claim premiership.
Musical greats Jelly Roll Morton and George Gershwin probably never met but awhile back, pianist Aaron Diehl decided that the two jazz pioneers should “meet” posthumously. It was a brilliant decision.
“He’s got the soul and the spirit of a jazz player, but he’s got the discipline to play with a symphony orchestra,” said Edward Yim, the Philharmonic’s vice president of artistic planning. “He can fit into our world in the way that not all jazz pianists could.”
This week the jazz pianist and rising star Aaron Diehl is set to make his New York Philharmonic debut in a prominent slot: opening night.
Pianist and pilot Aaron Diehl took WBGO's The Checkout host, Simon Rentner, on a flight around the Statue of Liberty while discussing music!