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Last Works

Label: Auteur
Released: 2019
Track listing: CD1 (1st Set): Abandoned; Chandra Lowery’s Samba; By The Martyr’s Decree; Times Remembered; Winter’s End; Dark Story; The Pharaoh’s Serpent. CD2 (2nd Set): Elipsis; Sultry; 45/8; In God’s Name; Two Becoming 3; Among Strangers.

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Article: Album Review

Tom Pierson: Last Works

Read "Last Works" reviewed by Roger Farbey


Classically trained Tom Pierson started out as a piano playing teenage prodigy in the early 1960s. His early orchestral background stood him in remarkably good stead since the compositions and arrangements for this masterpiece, Last Works are steeped in sonic complexity. It is also characterised by Pierson's self-stated desire not to regurgitate the past but to ...

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Planet of Tears

Label: Auteur
Released: 2003
Track listing: Fright; Once; Zaymah; Ballade; Deceitful Eyes; Black Art; Planet of Tears (57:51).

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Article: Album Review

Tom Pierson: Planet of Tears

Read "Planet of Tears" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Composer/pianist Tom Pierson, who now lives in Japan, recorded the music on Planet of Tears, much of it with his New York City-based big band, more than a dozen years ago. On the one hand, Pierson is a splendid writer/arranger with a well-defined game plan. (Gil Evans once called him “the best unknown composer I know.”) ...

Album

Planet of Tears

Label: Auteur
Released: 1990


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