Mr. Media Interviews By Bob Andelman

Today's Guest: Marian McPartland, jazz pianist, NPR host   Jazz pianist and National Public Radio host Marian McPartland Order Marian McPartland: Live at Maybeck Recital Hall, available right now at a great price by clicking on the CD cover above! When the news reached me today than legendary jazz pianist and longtime National Public Radio host Marian McPartland has passed away, I was reminded of my time with one of many great artists who tolerated a young music writer early in my career. On October 8, 1983, I interviewed Mrs. McPartland as a preview for an upcoming appearance she would be making in Clearwater, Florida, with her husband, Jimmy McPartland, and her old friend and frequent onstage partner, George Shearing. MARIAN McPARTLAND podcast excerpt: "If everybody is playing well together — bass, drums, piano —I swear there is some kind of sexual thing that is set up. In the music! Of course, it could go to the other thing, too! I won't say it couldn't." Order Marian Mcpartland's Piano Jazz with Stee