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Ripples

Label: Art of Life Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: Ripples; Remembering; Peaks and Valleys; All Around Us; Why; Crosscurrents; Why Ask Why

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Primal Virtue

December 7, 2009

Album: Between Worlds
By Evan Marien
Label: Art of Life Records
Released: 2010
Duration: 4:03

Article: Album Review

L'eredità musicale di Bill Evans impronta la cifra espressiva di questo disco, inciso nel '94 da Rodriguez in piena solitudine. Un pianista bravo ma non originalissimo, il cui camaleontismo non riesce a far decollare il decorativismo che informa il CD. Suoi colori, stilemi, vezzi, manierismi rimandano al marchio di fabbrica della pratica evansiana anche in alcune ...

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Steve Blanco Trio: Piano Warrior

Read "Piano Warrior" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 4, 2009

Ormai è una tendenza - inaugurata con ottimi risultati da formazioni come Bad Plus ed Esbjorn Svensson Trio - alla quale sembra che nessun piano trio che si rispetti riesca a sottrarsi. Ci riferiamo naturalmente alla prassi di inserire in un repertorio di composizioni originali una manciata di hit della musica pop, rock, soul,etc. Anche Steve ...

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Steve Blanco Trio: Piano Warrior

Read "Piano Warrior" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
May 2, 2009

A true piano warrior in every sense, Steve Blanco's second solo release offers an expansion to applications previously encountered via Contact, his independent 2006 trio debut. He offers the antidote to the customary trio format with an abundance of jazz-based thematic forays that project a contrasting spell to the typical ballad-bop-swing concepts. Blanco combats ...

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Bob Rodriguez: Portraits

Read "Portraits" reviewed by Elliott Simon

by Elliott Simon
April 1, 2009

There are times when there's the urge to put on some solo piano music, turn down the lights and experience the intimacy that no other instrument can so perfectly create. And while the pensive Portraits that Bob Rodriguez paints on this solo effort are done up in somber tones there is an immeasurable beauty to these ...

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Bob Rodriguez: Portraits

Read "Portraits" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
March 7, 2009

Recorded in 1994 and released in 2009, New York area pianist Bob Rodriguez doesn't delve into an existential framework splattered with hidden meanings. Simply stated, the album title intimates the artist's personalized musical portraitures equally divided between standards and originals. The pianist communicates great depth amid soul-stirring choruses and animated right hand leads. Rodriguez ...

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