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Marc Copland: A Special Way
by AAJ Staff
By Marc Copland Jazz at its best is an adventure of the mind and an affair of the heart. Those of us who love this music share a bond: we live for those musical moments that inspire us by challenging our ears, teaching our minds and elevating our spirit. The best of these moments take on an almost magical quality. In pursuit of such moments, real fans and dedicated musicians expend so much of ...
Continue ReadingMarc Copland in Montreal, May 27, 2006
by John Kelman
Marc Copland Upstairs Bar and Grill Montreal, Canada May 27, 2006
Pianist Marc Copland leads a remarkably busy life, often releasing as many as four records as a leader or co-leader in a single year. Yet, despite all that activity, he's perennially underappreciated in his own country, and a far bigger draw in Europe, where he records for labels like Nagel-Heyer, Hatology, Challenge and Pirouet.
Appearances in Canada are rarer still, and so Montreal ...
Continue ReadingMarc Copland: Standardized, Some Love Songs, Time Within Time
by Andrew Velez
Marc Copland/Bill Carrothers No Choice Minium 2006 Marc Copland Some Love Songs Pirouet 2006 Marc Copland Time Within Time HatHut 2005
Philadelphia-born Marc Copland gave up a burgeoning career in the '70s on the sax (including as a sideman for Chico Hamilton), only ...
Continue ReadingMarc Copland: Some Love Songs
by John Kelman
Were almost any other artist to put out an album called Some Love Songs, we might expect an album filled with saccharine sentimentality and syrupy romance. When pianist Marc Copland does it, though, chances are its going to be a lot more like the reality of love--complex and multifaceted, as bittersweet as it is tender, and as ambiguous as it is unmistakable.
For his third release this year--following the interactive chamber jazz of Brand New and the hauntingly beautiful solo ...
Continue ReadingMarc Copland/John Abercrombie/Kenny Wheeler: Brand New
by Eyal Hareuveni
Pianist Marc Copland, guitarist John Abercrombie, and trumpeter Kenny Wheeler need no introduction. Each is a truly original improviser with an individual voice, and all three are established leaders in their own right. They have collaborated through the years in various formations, most recently as a trio on That's for Sure, recorded by the same Dutch label, Challenge, four years ago.
The aptly titled Brand New is a remarkable masterpiece from great musicians who always opt for the ...
Continue ReadingMarc Copland: Growth Through Collaboration
by John Kelman
Pianist Marc Copland is one of those rare artists who have had a shot at two careers in music. Starting out as a saxophonist in the '70s, he would ultimately put down the instrument and move exclusively to the piano, the instrument that has ultimately defined his career, as he developed a style as distinctive in its attention to detail as it is in its innate lyricism that, nevertheless, always avoids the obvious. Copland is a truly ...
Continue ReadingMarc Copland: Time Within Time
by John Kelman
Solo recordings have their risks and rewards. Risks, because the artist is laid completely bare, with nothing to fall back on but his or her own abilities; rewards because there is the greatest opportunity for pure and unencumbered expression. While Time Within Time is not pianist Marc Copland's first solo release--which was the '01 Sketch release Poetic Motion--it does give one the opportunity to assess the continued evolution of a pianist who, quietly and without any fuss, is emerging as ...
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