Jazz Articles about Tim Bruer

Tim Bruer: Love Letters: Compositions For Solo Piano

by Dan McClenaghan
March 6, 2023

The music on Australian pianist Tim Bruer's Love Letters: Compositions For Solo Piano have simple beginnings. For example, a chord that Bruer loved--one which came about via his “messing around" with a keyboard sound that caught his ear--then developed quickly, with little tweaking, into its completed form; a composition was born Bruer loves sounds and, in the build-up to Love Letters, he decided to go with a spontaneous approach to composition, a “letting it happen" way of molding ...