MP3 Exclusives New Arrivals   Alt-Country Alternative Blues Electronic Jambands Jazz Metal Pop Punk R&B Rap/Hip Hop Reggae Rock   Top Downloads Features Archive Contests Control Panel MUSICBLITZ Alert!   METALBLITZ REGGAEBLITZ BLUESBLITZ Musician's Friend   Alt-Country Alternative Blues Electronic Jambands Jazz Hip Hop Metal Pop Punk R&B Reggae Rock   Getting Started Free Players	Welcome !      Connie Crothers A skillful improviser who’s studied and worked with some of jazz’s most adventurous figures, pianist Connie Crothers has stretched the boundaries of her instrument without delving into avant-noise like some of her contemporaries. A Palo Alto, CA, native born in 1941, Crothers began studying piano and composing at age 9; after graduating as a music major from the University of California at Berkeley, she moved to New York to study with maverick jazz pianist Lenny Tristano. After a decade of tutelage, Crothers was ready for performance -- first for small audiences at Tristano’s home, then for a bigger audience in Carnegie Recital Hall in 1973. She recorded her first album, Perception, in 1974, and after Tristano’s death in 1978, she oversaw a memorial concert at New York’s Town Hall. In 1982, legendary jazz drummer Max Roach joined Crothers on the Swish album, and she pursued a partnership with saxophonist Lenny Popkin off-and-on through the next two decades, appearing in the Crothers/Lenny Popkin Quartet as well as performing solo. She’s also played piano on, and engineered, several recordings on the Orchard label, including discs by guitarist Andy Fite and vocalist Bob Casanova.     Connie Crothers Creepin' In (w/Max Roach) PlayJ Jazz The raw power of this hard-hitting piano/drums duet is easy to dig, even if the abstract form leaves you scratching your head!
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