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Ballads & Burners

By Dave Frank

Label: Jazzheads
Released: 2007
Track listing: Spirit Of The Burn; Rousseau

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Dave Frank is a professor of piano at Boston's Berklee College of Music, co-founder of the New York School of Jazz and best-selling author of The Joy of Improv. Over the past twenty five years, he has developed a highly personalized approach towards solo piano performance. Ballads and Burners is the follow-up to his 1997 Jazzheads ...

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Dave Frank: Ballads & Burners

Read "Ballads & Burners" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
April 6, 2007

For pianist, composer, and educator Dave Frank, the magic is in the left hand. Ballads & Burners is a collection of original compositions that brims with muscularity and assertion, whether ballads or burners. What makes Frank interesting is the complexity of melody and rhythm he composes into his up-tempo pieces. The opener, “Spirit of the Burn, ...