Jazz Articles about Marc Copland

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Marc Copland / Greg Osby: Round and Round

by John Kelman
March 25, 2004

It has been a busy few years for pianist Marc Copland who has, since 2001, released as many as four albums in a single year. From the solo recording Poetic Motion to group recordings including Haunted Heart and Other Ballads and And"¦ , Copland has continued to hone a style that is marked by profound impressionism and a penchant for dark, brooding material. He has demonstrated an eagerness to explore ongoing musical relationships, as he has with Gary Peacock on ...

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Marc Copland/Gary Peacock: What It Says

by John Kelman
March 5, 2004

With a brooding approach that is nonetheless elegant in its delicacy, pianist Marc Copland teams up for yet another series of outstanding duets, this time with double-bassist Gary Peacock. What It Says represents some of Copland's most impressionistically abstract work and, for Peacock, his most successful duet outing this side of his work with Ralph Towner.

The pairing of Peacock and Copland is not exactly new; Peacock played on Copland's 1998 Savoy date, Softly , albeit in more traditional trio, ...

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Dave Liebman/Marc Copland: Bookends

by David Adler
May 5, 2003

Saxophonist David Liebman and pianist Marc Copland co-led a quartet with bassist Mike McGuirk and drummer Tony Martucci on last year's Lunar. Now they return to hatOLOGY as a duo, developing their impressive rapport over the course of two discs - the first in-studio, the second live, both recorded on the same date.Liebman has done some of his most remarkable work in a piano-horn duo setting, most notably with Richie Beirach, his partner in the bands Lookout Farm ...

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Marc Copland - David Liebman Quartet: Lunar

by Glenn Astarita
June 1, 2002

The co-leaders of this date first met back in the 70's, when pianist Marc Copland's instrument of choice was the saxophone. Whereas the teaming of the pianist's trio with sax great Dave Liebman reflects a natural extension of their fairly recent collaboration at the Santa Fe, New Mexico Jazz Festival. With this release, Copeland brings his elegant touch to the forefront, which is a characteristic that intrinsically complements, his partner's lofty excursions on both tenor and soprano saxophones. ...

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Marc Copland Trio: Haunted Heart & Other Ballads

by AAJ Staff
October 1, 2001

Anyone who is not by now familiar with the story of Marc Copland should first hear this before they read this review and then hear the disc it is about. The fact of the matter is, Marc Copland did not take up piano until the age of 35. That's right- Copland was originally a saxophonist, and quite a fine one at that, being very active on the New York scene in the 70s until he began to have the realization ...

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Marc Copland: Softly

by Joel Roberts
July 1, 1998

One of the intriguing things about pianist Marc Copland is that he started out playing the saxophone and was enjoying a successful career on that instrument, including a stint with the Chico Hamilton Quintet and an album with guitarist John Abercrombie, when he decided to switch gears and take up the piano. And after several years of full-time study (and a name change), he was able to establish himself as one of the more exciting, innovative, and technically adept pianists ...