From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
By HEATHER ROBINSON
August 24, 2005
In 1959, when Irving Fields was playing piano at the Sherry Biltmore Hotel in Boston, two couples approached him with competing requests.
“One couple requested, ‘I Love You Much Too Much,’ a nice Jewish song,” Fields recalled, while the other couple insisted, “We wanna …
From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
By HEATHER ROBINSON
August 24,2005
The CD of “Bagels and Bongos” features an interview with 90-year-old pianist Irving Fields, who still plays six nights a week at a Manhattan nightclub.
The liner notes describe Fields’ life story as one “of cultural alchemy as much as cultural preservation.” Indeed, Fields’ story …