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Greg Burk: Sound Neighbors

Read "Sound Neighbors" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Just as they say in real estate, “location, location, location," the same can be said for the piano trio of Greg Burk, bassist Ron Seguin, and drummer Michel Lambert. Recorded in Rome, where the American Burk now makes his home, Sound Neighbors reunites the pianist with the Canadians Seguin (also a resident of Rome) and Lambert, who were last heard on Burk's Many Worlds (482 Music, 2009) with Henry Cook.The music does travel well, meaning that locating the ...

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Greg Burk: As A River

Read "As A River" reviewed by Don Phipps


Having studied with George Russell and Paul Bley, and performed with Kenny Wheeler, David Murray and Steve Swallow, there is no doubting Greg Burk's bona fides. And with As a River, Burk has fashioned a series of deeply-felt original compositions--15 in all--that would make his mentors proud. Burk's compositions are edgy and serene, bluesy and poetic, all of them demonstrating a wide range of emotions. His technique is both forceful and flowing, a difficult tandem to deploy; but ...

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Take Five With Greg Burk

Read "Take Five With Greg Burk" reviewed by Greg Burk


About Greg Burk Following his acclaimed 2016 release Clean Spring on SteepleChase Records, American pianist and composer Greg Burk returns with solo piano As A River--his 12th and most lyrical album to date. The son of classical musicians, Burk spent his formative years on the jny: Detroit jazz scene, followed by studies in jny: Boston with the likes of George Russell, Danilo Perez and Paul Bley. The lyrical, classical, side of Burk's music emerges with conviction ...

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Greg Burk Expanding Trio: Deep Blue Sky

Read "Deep Blue Sky" reviewed by Maurizio Zerbo


Deep Blue Sky ripropone la sonorità elettrica del sintetizzatore Moog, con scansioni ritmiche tra jazz e funky. Il canone di riferimento, in voga negli anni Settanta, viene talora rinverdito con una dimensione ritmica contemporanea. C'è pure spazio per le sonorità acustiche, magnificamente rivelate dall'aura intimistica ed introspettiva di “Starbright Reverie." Oltre a rispecchiare maggiormente la poetica jazzistica di Greg Burk, l'intensa narratività melodica di questa composizione è l'episodio più riuscito di un percorso musicale complessivamente arioso e ritmicamente ...

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Greg Burk: Clean Spring

Read "Clean Spring" reviewed by Maurizio Zerbo


Con questo bel CD il pianista statunitense dimostra per l'ennesima volta la sua classe di compositore e improvvisatore. Probabilmente il fatto di risiedere in Italia ha arricchito di tinte più melodiche un ampio florilegio di tecnica pianistica, che spazia tra scansioni irregolari e rarefazioni improvvise. Composto da sole composizioni originarie, il repertorio proposto ha il merito di sottrarsi all'abusato stile evansiano, oggi acriticamente di moda tra i suoi colleghi. Clean Spring è un disco di profonda ricerca, con ...

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Greg Burk: Clean Spring

Read "Clean Spring" reviewed by Budd Kopman


Pianist Greg Burk has built quite a discography as a leader, including solo albums and his latest, Clean Spring will only further burnish his reputation as a deep player and thinker. In a very real sense, this album is a homage to Burk's mentor Paul Bley, who had an obvious impact of Burk's musical attitude and playing, but who also helped Burk pick out the tracks for the album in the months between the actual recording sessions and his death ...

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Greg Burk Trio: The Path Here

Read "The Path Here" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


In The Path Here, quinta incisione per 482 Music, il pianista Greg Burk, americano d'origine ma da anni residente a Roma, ritrova due amici di vecchia data come Jonathan Robinson e Gerald Cleaver. E di vecchia data sono anche alcuni dei brani contenuti nell'album che è una sorta di viaggio a ritroso nel tempo, in un passato musicale ed umano riletto alla luce delle esperienze umane e musicali maturate in concerti ed incontri in giro per il mondo. The Path ...


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