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Pete Malinverni & Juliet Kurtzman: Candlelight: Love In The Time Of Cholera
by Pierre Giroux
Gabriel García Márquez is a Columbian author whose novel Love In The Time Of Cholera forms part of the title of this duo recording by jazz pianist Pete Malinverni and classical violinist Juliet Kurtzman. The theme of the novel is about love found, lost and found again, while the musical program presented here keeps the love theme in focus surveying jazz and classical musical styles from the Americas. Malinverni has an evocative and vibrant playing style ...
read morePete Malinverni: Heaven
by Fiona Ord-Shrimpton
Perhaps church would be fashionable again amongst lapsed Christians if every church had musicians at the spec of Pete Malinverni. We have, in part, much to admire of the LA based Newman family for their reach in music and its training, in which composer, Anthony Newman was an insightful mentor to Malinverni's dedication. It would seem that to get to Heaven you must start at the Bach. As a summons Malinverni's call to prayer is witness to some ...
read morePete Malinverni: Heaven
by Dan McClenaghan
New York City-based pianist Pete Malinverni is a spiritual man. It's a side of his musical personality that he explores with depth and clarity on Heaven, a mostly trio affair that puts his succinct feel for the sacred, his supple and exquisite touch and his improvisational elan in the forefront on a gorgeous set of music. He serves up the traditional-- “Shenandoah," “A City Called Heaven," “Wade In the Water--along with Duke Ellington's “Heaven" and “Come Sunday," and more, including ...
read morePete Malinverni Trio: A Beautiful Thing
by Dan McClenaghan
The great tenor saxophonist Coleman Hawkins once said: “[music]...if you don't make mistakes you're not really trying." Pianist Pete Maliverni seems to have taken this statement to heart, going into the studio with his working trio--bassist Lee Hudson and drummer Eliot Zigmund--to record A Beautiful Thing, producing a music full of inspired flexibility, much like what would be heard on a live date.The set underscores advice that would be well-taken by any jazz musician--any artist for that matter--that ...
read moreJody Sandhaus: Winter Moon
by Dave Nathan
The mood set by the title of Jody Sandhaus' maiden album is expressed by many tunes found on the play list. Winter is cold and desolate, while the bright moon is a beacon of better things to come. This theme comes through especially on poet and lyricist Fran Landesman's “The Ballad of the Sad Young Men" which she wrote with constant collaborator, Tommy Wolf. This tune promises hope for young men who have been wandering through life without much purpose. ...
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