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Marc Copland: New York Trio Recordings Vol. 3: Night Whispers
by John Kelman
Some artists are so consistent that it's difficult to tag one release as better than another. Still, every now and then they manage to release career milestones that stand above the rest. Pianist Marc Copland's Time Within Time (HATology, 2005) is one such watershed--a sublime solo piano session that transcends mere virtuosity and digs so deeply into its repertoire that it's almost impossible not to feel fully a part the experience rather than just an innocent bystander. ...
Continue ReadingMarc Copland: Another Place
by Troy Collins
Pianist Marc Copland has been the focus of a recent spate of recordings on the German Pirouet label that focus on the traditional piano format. Another Place breaks form and expands the concept to a quartet setting, reuniting Copland with guitarist John Abercrombie, bassist Drew Gress and drummer Billy Hart, all previously heard together on Second Look (Savoy, 1996).
A dynamic soloist and composer of harmonically intricate works, Copland's aesthetic finds concordance in creative mainstream traditions, akin to ...
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by John Kelman
It's taken nearly a lifetime for British pianist John Taylor to receive the credit he's due. While still underappreciated in his own country, Marc Copland does seem to be pushing his way through the morass of American pianists to a position of greater prominence. With a discography that gets better every year, Copland--approaching sixty, but looking a decade younger--is, with little fuss but relentless persistence, emerging as an artist of significance, with a leading voice and compositional approach.
Continue ReadingMarc Copland: New York Trio Recordings Vol. 2: Voices
by Michael P. Gladstone
There is always room for one more piano trio when the leader, pianist Marc Copland, comes out of the modal school of Bill Evans and Keith Jarrett. Considering his choice of sidemen and their employers, bassist Gary Peacock (Keith Jarrett's Standards Trio) and drumming legend Paul Motian (Bill Evans's renowned Riverside Trio with Scott LaFaro). In fact, it was Peacock who suggested to Jarrett that he utilize the format of The Great American Songbook for their recordings and concerts, beginning ...
Continue ReadingMarc Copland / Gary Peacock / Bill Stewart at Birdland, NYC
by Budd Kopman
Marc Copland/Gary Peacock/Bill Stewart at Birdland, NYCBirdlandNew York City, New YorkMarch 20, 2008 However much we might wish that jazz, or indeed any art, be devoid of any relationship to economics, the the numerous extra-musical things that go into making a record, from promoting it to setting up a gig, can sometimes conflict with the purest of intentions. This particular event was part of the promotion for pianist Marc Copland's latest release New York ...
Continue ReadingMarc Copland: New York Trio Recordings Vol. 2: Voices
by Jerry D'Souza
Pianist Marc Copland returns with the New York Trio Recordings Volume 2: Voices, following Modinha (Pirouet Records, 2007). It's the second in the series, with one more to come. Bill Stewart has been replaced by Paul Motian on drums and, considering the music, he's a better fit.
Copland and Peacock composed all the music except for Miles Davis' “All Blues," with the music following two streams: chamber and cool jazz. The zones are wide enough for the trio ...
Continue ReadingMarc Copland: New York Trio Recordings Vol. 2: Voices
by C. Michael Bailey
Marc Copland is part of a group of jazz pianists extending the language of Bill Evans and, in doing so, is creating a new abstract face of jazz pianism. If jazz piano could be coaxed to be more thoughtful and introspective, it would spontaneously morph from aural to visual art and would manifest as a Monet or Matisse painting. Such is the lot of the collection of seven original compositions and one jazz standard making up Copland's second volume of ...
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