2-5-1

Nick Tomalin snd Simon Whiteside host a variety of podcasts about jazz .From the short vignettes of two pianist, five minutes, one podcast through to the Two pianist, Five Podcasts, One subject and in depth look at the life work and piano stylings of single pianists. So far Sonny Clark and Kenny Drew have been covered.

All Episodes

2-5-1

2-5m-1-S2E22-Pat Moran

March 01, 2024 • Simon Whiteside and Nicholas Tomalin • Season 2 • Episode 22

Send us a text

Pat Moran was active as a Jazz pianist in the 1950s-1960s and played with many good artists particularly on the west coast. Her trio album with Scott La Faro 1957 is a real gem in our opinion. Her Classical training has furnished her with a great facility at the piano and her fast runs are crisp and well phrased. The complete trio album released by Fresh Sounds combines the Scott la Faro with The Pat Moran Quartet (1956), with Moran on piano John Doling on bass, John Whited on drums and Beverly Kelly fronting on vocals. Scott la Faro actually said "I don't even like any of my recordings except maybe the first one I did with Pat Moran on Audio Fidelity."

There is also an interesting live album from Birdland with Horns added. in this album the whole band sing 4 part harmony

here is a link to an Apple Music playlist
here is the link to a short documentary

This is our website
This is our Instagram
This is our Facebook group