In a Mist McPartland Marian 1974[thanks to boberwig on dailymotion]Pianist Marian McPartland plays a tune composed by Bix Beiderbecke. He recorded "In the Mist" in 1927.Margaret Marian Turner was born in England on March 21, 1918 near Slough, Buckinghamshire. As a child, young Marian Turner approached the piano around the age of three. While gaining proficiency on her own, she often provided musical entertainment at family gatherings. Her parents, however, enrolled Marian in violin lessons. Marian's enrollment in a boarding school ended her doomed attempt at playing the violin, and she eventually ended up at the famous London Guildhall School of Music where she studied piano and composition.Marian was introduced to jazz by a boyfriend who often brought jazz records to her house. For hours they would listen to the music of Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, and others. From that point on, Marian was hooked on jazz. In 1943, Marian began playing in USO camp shows in Belgium and France, where she met a Chicago cornetist named Jimmy McPartland, a Bix Beiderbeck protege. In 1952, Marian's trio began what was to become a long-running gig at New York's Hickory House, where many legendary musicians to whom Marian had once listened often sat in the audience listening to Marian.In 1978, Marian began hosting her own radio program for National Public Radio and South Carolina Educational Radio: Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz. Marian's most recently released CD on the Concord Jazz label is Just Friends, featuring jazz greats-- Tommy Flanagan, Renee Rosnes, George Shearing, Geri Allen, Dave Brubeck, and Gene Harris--playing duets with Marian. Additionally, a CD titled Portraits was released on the NPR label in the summer of 1999. This CD, as suggested by the title, is a compendium of Marian's musical portraits of several guests on Piano Jazz.
First, this is jazz! Second, Bix never wrote it down himself, it was transcribed by Bill Challis. The middle section was added later at the publisher's request (again transcribed by Challis.) If anything, Marian's version is even better than the original. No one will ever surpass Bix's cornet playing though.
scillacone(March 29, 2009 at 5:15 am)
music, like great literary works, is to be interpreted, enjoyed, and shared that way. 10 people can read and play this or any piece, and you will hear 10 different interpretations... It's all about enjoyment and enjoying oneself playing a piece... a person's feelings come out in their own playing. Marian is gr8! Too many people "settle" for emulation instead of enjoying realization...
CrummyCurtis(February 19, 2009 at 12:42 am)
Really enjoyed it. I have a version of her playing "In A Mist" on her husband's 1957 Brunswick album which I used for an end theme when I hosted a jazz show on the radio long ago. For those who do not know: Marian and Jimmy McPartland were married for many years, divorced for many more years, and remarried in 1991 just before Jimmy's death from cancer.
victorcornet21(January 15, 2009 at 5:56 pm)
Bravo! A beautiful interpretation, and true to the spirit of what Bix was writing both for piano and cornet.
MattLeGroulx(November 29, 2008 at 4:01 am)
according to accounts even bix couldn't play it the same way twice.
muzikborn13(November 28, 2008 at 8:49 pm)
what's the point of music if you can't play it the way you want to. if you like the original sound... there's a million people out there that have recorded it that way. go buy that album. why criticize an interpretation.everyone hears a song differently, she might be playing it the way she felt when she heard it. who knows... and that's why music is beautiful,.. just like marian. :)
mxdblessing(October 31, 2008 at 9:43 pm)
GozTheGreat, I think she's simply playing, quite literally, in a mist. Nothing sounds mistier to me than the whole tone scale. I'm not speaking to its effectiveness--I think it's a tad inappropriate for the rest of the interpretation--but it's a lovely idea to say the least.
cruddiestcrudever(October 25, 2008 at 8:35 am)
I agree with Bix himself, Play it like its written!!!
jazzzguy(September 17, 2008 at 3:36 am)
This concert was from 1976 not 1974.
mikezzzaaa3(July 27, 2008 at 11:02 am)
very played. But i porefer to stick more to the more stride like origial. But very classy all the same.
Jazzkid88(July 22, 2008 at 9:11 am)
Obviously, you're one to designate what is strange and what isn't
GozTheGreat(July 9, 2008 at 8:42 am)
Great. Really beautifull. Strangly, she adds an intro (with "whole tones scale" tricks) then she plays the original score with a "rubato" approach (when I play this tune I prefer use a more "ragtime" without tempos changes approach... as on Bix recording of the tune).
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