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MARK ISAACS "A splendid musical mind" LOS ANGELES TIMES Australian-based pianist-composer Mark Isaacs (b. 1958) has pursued a unique and demanding career path that has seen him gain international acclaim in both jazz and classical music. Such diversity was nurtured in the crucible of a highly musical family. Mark's uncle was the legendary British jazz guitarist Ike Isaacs, who worked for many years with jazz violinist Stephane Grapelli and was on friendly terms with many of the biggest names in jazz. Duke Ellington came for dinner one time and there were visits from George Benson, Joe Pass, Wes Montgomery, Barney Kessel and many others
Duende
By Mark Isaacs
Label: Gracemusic
Released: 2013
Track listing: First Light, You Never Forget Love; Duende; The Beloved; Dolce; New
Lives; Gnosis; Duende (solo reprise); You Never Forget Love (extended
mix).
Resurgence: Duende
by C. Michael Bailey
Australian pianist Mark Isaacs has hit a long stride with his band Resurgence, releasing the band's fourth recording Duende. His three previous recordings with Resurgence: Resurgence (ABC Jazz, 2007), Tell It Like It Is (ABC Jazz, 2010), and Aurora Aurora (Gracemusic, 2011) have progressively probed the edges of contemporary jazz, filling out the sound that one ...
Aurora
By Mark Isaacs
Label: Gracemusic
Released: 2011
Track listing: CD: Will-'o-the-wisp; Good Tidings; Emergence; Threnady; For the Road; Bagatelle; Aurora. DVD: Minsk; You Never Forget Love; Homecoming; Night Song Part 1; Night Song Part 2; Angel; Tell It Like It Is; Between the Shores. Bonus Features: Intro by Andrew Ford; What Was Said Between Songs.
Mark Isaacs Resurgence Band: Aurora
by C. Michael Bailey
The last artistic musical movement in jazz to be given a meaningful name was the post-bop movement. Arising out of the mid-1960s as a unifying response to hard bop, modal, the avant-garde and free jazz, post-bop has fairly well dominated the most creative jazz made in the last 30 years. If post-bop has a ground zero, ...
Mark Isaacs: Aurora
by John Kelman
As Tell It Like It Is (ABC Jazz, 2009), amply proved, sometimes it's better to work with local musicians who, through regular touring, establish a singular collective voice. That's not to say Resurgence (ABC Jazz, 2007) was bad--it's hard to imagine anything with bassist Jay Anderson, drummer Vinnie Colaiuta and saxophonist Bob Sheppard as lacking in ...
For the Road
Album: Aurora
By Mark Isaacs
Label: Gracemusic
Released: 2011
Duration: 09:31
Tell It Like It Is
By Mark Isaacs
Label: ABC Jazz
Released: 2010
Track listing: Minsk; You Never Forget Love; Homecoming; Night Song Part 1; Night Song
Part 2; Angel; Tell It Like It Is; Between the Shores.
Korean Music Shines At Performing Arts Market in Seoul, October 11-15, 2010
by Ian Patterson
Performing Arts Market in SeoulNational Theater and selected venuesSeoul, South Korea11--15 October, 2010 The number of festivals, theaters and performance groups in South Korea has grown dramatically in the last twenty years and the tremendous developments in the fields of traditional music, jazz, dance and theater is testament to the ...
Mark Isaacs Resurgence Band: Tell It Like It Is
by C. Michael Bailey
Australian pianist Mark Isaacs has been recording forward-thinking progressive jazz for the past 25 years. His new millennium recordings have garnered popular response, including Closer (Naxos, 2000), Keeping the Standards (Vorticity Music, 2003), Visions (Vorticity Music, 2006), and Resurgence (ABC, 2007). During the last decade, Isaacs has been approaching a new assertive sound that unifies the ...
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