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Armen Donelian Trio: Oasis

Read "Oasis" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Armen Donelian è pianista raffinato, autore di notevoli lavori per piano solo (clicca qui per leggere la recensione dell’ottimo Mystic Heights) e apprezzato collaboratore del grande e sfortunato Tom Chapin (clicca qui per leggere la recensione del loro Quartet Language). Nella sua ultima registrazione, Oasis, documenta la propria formazione in trio con il bassista David Clark ...

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Full Moon Music: Grand Ideas, Vol. 3

Label: Sunnyside
Released: 2005

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Full Moon Music

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Preamble; A Call To The Spirits; The Witch

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Armen Donelian: Full Moon Music

Read "Full Moon Music" reviewed by Elliott Simon


The third chapter in pianist Armen Donelian's Grand Ideas trilogy, Full Moon Music, stands alone in its ability to allow the listener to bond with the artist on a most personal level. Consisting of fourteen freely improvised solo piano portraits, the program masterfully tip-toes, walks, and runs along the thinnest of lines separating jazz and classical ...

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Armen Donelian: Full Moon Music

Read "Full Moon Music" reviewed by Michael McCaw


Precious few listeners are aware of Armen Donelian. A tremendously talented pianist who has never had a major label signing nor has attached his name to a legend or star of some sort, Donelian has quietly created a body of work that at the very least is consistent, at best exhilarating. His latest release covers the ...

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Quartet Language

Label: Playscape Recordings
Released: 2004
Track listing: Jabberwackey; The Germ; Mexico; Loose as a Goose; Brood Mood.

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Armen Donelian: Quartet Language

Read "Quartet Language" reviewed by Celeste Sunderland


Pianist Armen Donelian made the acquaintance of alto saxophonist Thomas Chapin in 1988. Ten years later, at the age of 40, Chapin died of leukemia. Rewind to two spring nights in 1992. At the New York jazz club Visiones, Chapin shares the stage with Donelian, bassist Calvin Hill, and drummer Jeff Williams. Five tracks of intricately ...

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Quartet Language

Label: Playscape Recordings
Released: 2003
Track listing: Jabberwackey; The Germ; Mexico; Loose as a Goose; Brood Mood.

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Armen Donelian: Quartet Language

Read "Quartet Language" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Quartet Language is as much about history as it is about living in the moment. The 1992 live recording had to sit around for a decade before Playscape picked it up for release this year. Pianist Armen Donelian is a veteran whose credentials have never been in doubt: he first appeared on record a quarter century ...

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A Reverie - Solo Piano

Label: Sunnyside
Released: 1995


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