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Pianist Paul Cornish was born and raised in Houston, studying classical piano from the age of five.
He moved to Los Angeles to study at USC and is a graduate student at the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz Performance at UCLA
On his LiveStream from Aug. 6, 2020, Paul Cornish displays impressive technique, a bright and swinging style, and his own voice on the piano.
He performs Benny Golson’s “Along Came Betty,” and Dave Brubeck’s “Strange Meadowlark,” improvises over a repeated fragment of Billie Holiday’s “I’ll Be Seeing You” (definitely an acquired taste), engages in an exploration of “Blowing In The Wind,” performs wo songs in which he interacts with a spoken word tape, and plays some originals; Paul Cornish is certainly an up-and-coming talent.
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A former football player for the Washington Redskins where he played defensive back, Dick Smith has always loved to sing jazz.
Smith organizes Jazz Night in Southwest, a long-running Friday night concert series.
On his LiveStream from July 5, 2020, Dick Smith contributes personable vocals while joined by pianist Chris Grasso, bassist Tommy Cecil and drummer Lee Pearson.
Smith and his group perform “It Could Happen To You,” “You Don’t Know What Love Is,” “There Will Never Be Another You,” “I Thought About You,” “Just Squeeze Me” and other veteran standards with swing and spirit.
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A colorful and fluent pianist from England, Dom Pipkin normally plays a variety of music that often falls into the area of New Orleans rhythm and blues but also includes swing and his own original songs.
Pipkin, who considers the Meters, Dr John, Fats Domino and Professor Longhair to be influences, has often played often at Ronnie Scott’s in London, done quite a bit of traveling and has performed regularly in New Orleans during the past 15 years.
On his solo piano LiveStream of Mar. 19, 2021, Dom Pipkin primarily sticks to swinging straight ahead jazz including such standards as “Perdido,” “I Thought About You,” “You Don’t Know What Love Is,” “I’ll Remember April,” “It’s Alright With Me” and even the theme from “The Flintstones.”
