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By Brian Tanguay Stephanie Trick Gives Intimate Concert independent.com/news/2019/feb/26/stephanie-trick-gives-intimate-concert/ For two hours, Isla Vista’s Aladdin Café was filled with the uniquely American sound of stride piano stylings, thanks to pianist Stephanie Trick. Stride piano is a form of jazz music that descended from ragtime and came into its own in Harlem in the 1920s, pioneered by artists like James P. Johnson, Willie “The Lion” Smith, and Thomas “Fats” Waller. The heyday of stride may have ended in the early 1940s, but the contrapuntal, improvisational, blues- influenced style is alive and well, its legacy carried on by the evening’s main attraction, Trick. Trick’s Isla Vista appearance was one in a pop-up series called Jeffrey’s Jazz Coffeehouse ( faceboook.com/JJCIslaVista), conceived by Jeffrey C. Stewart, a professor of black studies at UCSB. Stewart set the scene for the evening and then turned the stage over to Trick, who is known internationally as a virtuoso interpreter of the stride piano genre. Trick had no trouble holding the audience of UCSB students and others spellbound. Playing compositions from James P. Johnson such as “Carolina Balmoral,” “A-Flat Dream,” and “Carolina Shout,” Trick gave an intimate concert and taught a class containing history and music theory. Trick’s expressive playing set feet tapping and heads nodding. “This music doesn’t die,” she said. “It still carries emotional power.” A highlight of the evening came when Trick was joined at the piano by her husband, the acclaimed pianist Paolo Alderighi, for a rousing four-hands-on- one-piano rendition of Duke Ellington’s “It Don’t Mean a Thing.” Copyright ©2019 Santa Barbara Independent, Inc. Reproduction of material from any Independent.com pages without written permission is strictly prohibited. If you believe an Independent.com user or any material appearing on Independent.com is copyrighted material used without proper permission, please click here. Stephanie Trick Gives Intimate Concert https://www.printfriendly.com/p/g/JCbXcc 1 of 1 2/27/19, 12:58 PM
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By Brian Tanguay
Stephanie Trick Gives Intimate Concertindependent.com/news/2019/feb/26/stephanie-trick-gives-intimate-concert/
For two hours, Isla Vista’s Aladdin Café was filled with the uniquely American sound of stridepiano stylings, thanks to pianist Stephanie Trick. Stride piano is a form of jazz music thatdescended from ragtime and came into its own in Harlem in the 1920s, pioneered by artistslike James P. Johnson, Willie “The Lion” Smith, and Thomas “Fats” Waller. The heyday ofstride may have ended in the early 1940s, but the contrapuntal, improvisational, blues-influenced style is alive and well, its legacy carried on by the evening’s main attraction, Trick.
Trick’s Isla Vista appearance was one in a pop-up series called Jeffrey’s Jazz Coffeehouse(faceboook.com/JJCIslaVista), conceived by Jeffrey C. Stewart, a professor of black studiesat UCSB. Stewart set the scene for the evening and then turned the stage over to Trick, whois known internationally as a virtuoso interpreter of the stride piano genre. Trick had notrouble holding the audience of UCSB students and others spellbound. Playing compositionsfrom James P. Johnson such as “Carolina Balmoral,” “A-Flat Dream,” and “Carolina Shout,”Trick gave an intimate concert and taught a class containing history and music theory. Trick’sexpressive playing set feet tapping and heads nodding. “This music doesn’t die,” she said. “Itstill carries emotional power.” A highlight of the evening came when Trick was joined at thepiano by her husband, the acclaimed pianist Paolo Alderighi, for a rousing four-hands-on-one-piano rendition of Duke Ellington’s “It Don’t Mean a Thing.”
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