Jazz Articles about Greg Reitan

About Greg Reitan

Album Review

Greg Reitan began the year with Some Other Time (Sunnyside, 2009), a spectacularly graceful record. He ends the year with another that equals--if not surpasses--the maturity of that album. Antibes is a work of exacting pianism and expansive grandeur. The record also dispels the notion that Reitan's music is an amalgam of his influences (Bill Evans and Keith Jarrett), for Reitan is a singular pianist with a technique becoming of a virtuoso of the highest order. His ...

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Album Review

Greg Reitan: Some Other Time

Read "Some Other Time" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
February 19, 2009

Elegance is a difficult quality to pin down, but you know it when you see it--or hear it. Duke Ellington, of course. Lester Young: Oh yeah. Or to take it into the piano trio game: Bill Evans, Hank Jones, Jessica Williams, Ahmad Jamal.With his debut Some Other Time, Los Angeles-based pianist Greg Reitan can also be added to the elegance category.Boundaries are being stretched in the piano trio format, with jamband approaches and added electronics coming ...

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Album Review

Greg Reitan: Some Other Time

Read "Some Other Time" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose
February 12, 2009

The notes he strikes--ebony and ivory--stay interminably in the memory, hanging life-like and sensuously, fully laden on the canopy that crowns the mind's mind. Ideas abound and spring forth--even down the choruses of well-worn standards--and they sparkle end-to-end on Cole Porter's “All of You," Guaraldi's “Star Song," and on Bernstein's “Some Other Time," the title song, which is also an ironic harking back to a future-past and the seeming infinity of the life of the song's music itself. This, and ...