ROME, ITALY -- Pianist/composer Greg Burk is proud to announce the October 12th release of Carpe Momentum, the debut release from his quartet and his second as a leader on Italy's legendary Soul Note label. Burk's latest ensemble features him leading frequent collaborators, including renowned Boston-based tenor saxophonist Jerry Bergonzi and in-demand New York drummer Gerald Cleaver, through his trademark excursions between memorable original melodies and the spontaneity of free improvisation.
“You need to take the time to listen to pianist and composer Greg Burk's Carpe Momentum," writes noted jazz journalist Howard Mandel in the liner notes. “Intriguing melodic songs, surprising cyclical forms, unforced modern swing, moments when formal design is daringly tossed to the winds and everything is up for grabs...they explore a panoply of possibilities by focusing on a given concept for motif, turning it over and over, around and upside down until it leads somewhere
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