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David Lopato: Short Stories
by Jack Bowers
Short Stories, pianist and composer David Lopato's seventh album, is for the most part modern in the best sense of the word. Lopato's musical influences are wide, ranging from jazz, blues and rock to avant-garde and free improvisation while embracing themes from Africa, Latin America and Asia--most notably Indonesia where he spent a year on a Fulbright scholarship learning to play the Javanese gamelan. Even when fusing these diverse bonds into a single vision, however, Lopato seldom strays from the ...
read moreDavid Lopato: Gendhing for a Spirit Rising
by Mark Sullivan
American composer/pianist David Lopato has a long history with South Asian music, especially the music of Java. Much of the music in the title work--which occupies the first disc of this two-disc set--was inspired by the year he spent in Surakarta (seat of one of the two great kingdoms of Central Java, where most of the Javanese music we hear in the West originates) on a Fulbright grant. As a jazz musician Lopato was intrigued by the prospect of combining ...
read moreDavid Lopato: Many Moons
by AAJ Italy Staff
Mettendo a frutto il poco tempo lasciato libero dai suoi impegni didattici, David Lopato ha registrato un lungo disco che raccoglie composizioni scritte nell'arco di un trentennio e che testimoniano non solo il suo mondo ma anche i suoi interessi, i suoi studi e la sua attività accademica. Quindi, non solo jazz in senso stretto (nel quale vanta collaborazioni con musicisti del calibro di Ray Anderson, Dave Liebman, Joe Lovano, Mark Helias, Jane Ira Bloom, Gerry Hemingway, e Wadada Leo ...
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by Karl Ackermann
Pianist/composer, David Lopato's long career has included turns with prominent players in the fields of avant-garde jazz and classical, world music, theater, free improvisation and modern jazz. In particular, he has done outstanding jazz work with Gerry Hemingway, David Mott, Wadada Leo Smith and Joe Lovano. Given the wide and varied circles Lopato travels in, it isn't useful to have preconceived notions about any particular music as his defining genre. Nevertheless, Many Moons, his second solo piano release, covers the ...
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by Dan Bilawsky
Pianist David Lopato's Many Moons could just as easily have been called Many Moods, with the variety of approaches he takes on these twelve original piano pieces. Jazz is only one area of expertise on Lopato's large resume, which also includes extensive studies on African drumming and Javanese gamelan, scoring work for theater and dance, and many years spent as the producer of a concert series concentrating on modern improvised music, and he uses his diverse experiences to color his ...
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