Results for "Armen Donelian"

Fresh Start

By Armen Donelian

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Noviembre; Fresh Start; Ferry Maiden; Madagascar; Galel; Never Let Me Go; Tirado; In the Western Night; Day Break; Janet Left the Planet; I'm Stepping Out with a Memory Tonight; Tales in the Western Night

Sharp Radway, Gerald Clayton and Armen Donelian

by Joe Dimino
May 22, 2022

We begin the 752nd Episode of Neon Jazz with pianist Armen Donelian with new music from his latest release Fresh Start. Next, we hear from his friend Billy Harper and a host of veteran artists with new material out in 2022. From the likes of Sam Kirmayer, David Nichtern, Sharp Radway and James Brown Gang. In ...

Pianist-Composer Armen Donelian Debuts New Trio, With Jay Anderson & Dennis Mackrel, On 'Fresh Start,' Due April 1 From Sunnyside Records

February 2, 2022

Pianist-composer Armen Donelian reemerges from the COVID-inspired shutdowns with a newly refined conception on both instrument and pen on Fresh Start, to be released April 1 on Sunnyside Records. The album is the recorded premiere of Donelian’s new trio featuring bassist Jay Anderson and drummer Dennis Mackrel. Sidelined like all musicians by the worldwide pandemic, Donelian ...

Armen Donelian

Born: 1950

For fifty years, pianist, composer and Fulbright Scholar ARMEN DONELIAN has distinguished himself in 25 countries as a performer, recording artist, producer, educator and with his published writings. Donelian’s music is a distinctive blend of influences including his Armenian origin, his Classical technique, and his association with some of the biggest names in Jazz. And, according to Metronom, he achieves this fusion “in such a natural way that one can tell it’s a master’s work.”

As a child, Armen absorbed the sound of Armenian, Turkish, Greek and Middle Eastern music at social gatherings and from records his father played at home.

2019 Hudson Jazz Festival

by Rudolph Lu
April 2, 2019

Hudson, New York is a two-hour ride from New York City, an hour away from Albany, and home to the Hudson Jazz Festival. Now in its second year, this year's festival took place from February 17 through February 19, with all performances held in the recently restored Hudson Hall. Day one featured the music ...

First Tucson Jazz Festival features Bacharach, Reeves, Cobb, Childs, DeFrancesco, more

January 12, 2015

By Patricia Myers The HSL Tucson Jazz Festival, a 13-day event from January 16-28 will feature both national and Arizona musicians, headlined by 86-year-old composer Burt Bacharach, 85-year old drummer and NEA Jazz Master Jimmy Cobb, and four 2015 Grammy-nominated musicians. Organist Joey DeFrancesco received a Best Jazz Instrumental nomination for Enjoy The View ...

Sayat-Nova: Songs of my Ancestors

By Armen Donelian

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: Disc 1: "Where Do You Come From, Wandering Nightingale? / Oosdi Goukas Gharib Blbool?"; "I Have Traveled The Whole World Over / Tamam Ashkhar Bdood Eka"; "Without You, What Will I Do? / Arantz Kez Eench Goneem?"; "Surely, You Don't Say That You Also Cry? / Ches Asoum Te Latz-es Eli?"; "I'll Never Know Your True Worth / Hees Koo Gheemetn Cheem Geetee", "I Call Lalanin / Hees Ganchoom Eem Lalaneen"; "Praised Among All Instruments (Kamanche) / Amen Sazi Mechn Govats (Kamanche)"; "With The Nightingale You Also Cry / Blbooli Hit Latz-es Eli"; "Were I Offered Your Weight In Pearls / Tekouz Koo Kashn Markrit Tan" Disc 2: "King Of Cathay / Shahkhatayee"; "Your Headdress Is Silver And Silk / Tasdamazt Sim Oo Sharbab"; "My Sweet Harp / Eem Anoush Davigh"; "You Are Golden And Exotic Brocade / Tipa Oo Yenkitoonia"; "As Long As I Draw Breath / Kani Vor Jan Eem"

New CD From Armen Donelian Slated For 4/15!

April 10, 2014

Pianist, composer, bandleader, and educator Armen Donelian has carved out an enviable career spanning four decades, including seminal stints with Jazzmen Sonny Rollins, Billy Harper, Chet Baker, and Mongo Santamaria. But two other streams – Classical and Middle Eastern music – have influenced Donelian’s artistic direction. His new double album Sayat-Nova: Songs Of My Ancestors, his ...

Armen Donelian: Sayat-Nova: Songs of my Ancestors

by Gabriel Medina Arenas
March 17, 2014

The sound of his piano evokes treasured sounds from a small and hidden mountainous country full of cultural richness and history in the heart of Eurasia. On his thirteenth solo album, the New Yorker veteran musician Armen Donelian paid a homage to Armenia, the homeland of his forefathers. Donelian, a classically trained ...

Armen Donelian To Appear In Pittsfield, Mass. Feb. 15 For 10x10 Upstreet Winter Arts Festival

January 30, 2013

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Berkshires Jazz, Inc. today announced its participation in Pittsfield's second annual 10x10 Upstreet Winter Arts Festival, with a special concert by the remarkable pianist and composer Armen Donelian. For the Feb. 15 concert at Baba Louie's Backroom, the Armen Donelian Trio explores the music of 10 American composers whose inspiring work spanned jazz' ...