Author Archives: jeremy

Thanks for getting past the cellophane. Playing in a trio is one of the most fulfilling things a jazz pianist can do: you get to be the main solo voice, and you also get the satisfaction of collaborating with your … Continue reading →

More Pepper Please My first recording as part of this Pepper Adams project was a trio date in June of 2006. It must have gone well enough, because producer Gary Carner enlisted me for a second go-round with the trio, … Continue reading →

Pepper’s Take Of all the horns that are associated with jazz, none occupies a more perplexing place than the baritone saxophone. It is essential to the success of a large ensemble: A big band without a great sax section is … Continue reading →

I’ve gotten a lot of very amused (and amusing) responses from the very short video attached here. jwplayer(“jwplayer-1″).setup({flashplayer: “http://kahnman.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/jw-player-plugin-for-wordpress/player/player.swf”, width: “400″, height: “280″, controlbar: “bottom”, “mediaid”: “163″, “image”: “http://kahnman.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/JeremyPecan41.mp4″, “file”: “http://kahnman.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/JeremyPecan41.mp4″, events: {}, config: “”}); Let me take a minute … Continue reading →

Hi there. My last post was one in which I lamented my dead dog. I hope that this one will be even funnier. Yiddish is an extremely colorful language that was spoken by my ancestors, and many of its words … Continue reading →

We’ve just buried our dog Mari and now I come to praise her. Despite my advanced age, she was my first real pet. I’ll qualify that last statement: my family had a dog when I was a baby. His name … Continue reading →

And hello again. I’d like to wax prosaic on another aspect of my life as a musician: that of being employed in the orchestra pits of theatrical extravaganzas. Believe me when I say that being a pit musician was not … Continue reading →

A significant portion of my storied career has been devoted to the service of providing piano accompaniment to singers who are auditioning for a part in a musical production. Repeated exposure to these situations has led me to mentally index … Continue reading →

My piano teacher in college was Jaki Byard, and he was a huge influence on me. I’ve covered this subject in detail on my website (http://www.kahnman.com/byard.php). When he was shot to death by a knucklehead who had come his door … Continue reading →

My son surprised me recently when he casually mentioned that he listened to Vince Guaraldi’s “A Charlie Brown Christmas” almost every day. I never really thought of it as a “desert island” recording, but, if you think about, that record, … Continue reading →