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Life's A Movie - The Inventions Trio

Label: Chiaroscuro Records
Released: 2013
Track listing: 1. My Bells 2. interplay 3. Turn Out The Stars 4. Waltz For Debbie Suite: Life's A Movie 5. Main Title 6. Love Theme Bittersweet 7. Chase 8. Finale/End Credits 9. Concierto de Aranjuez 10. Spain 11. Trinkle, Tinkle 12. Pannonica 13. Straight, No Chaser

Album

Life's a Movie

By Bill Mays

Label: Chiaroscuro Records
Released: 2013
Track listing: Homage to Bill Evans (My Bells / Interplay / Turn Out the Stars / Waltz for Debby); Life’s a Movie: 4 Cues in Search of a Film (Main Title / Love Theme Bittersweet / Chase / End Credits); Concierto de Aranjuez; Monk Tribute (Trinkle Tinkle / Pannonica / Straight, No Chaser).

Article: Album Review

Tommy Cecil: Our Time: Sondheim Duos, Volume 2

Read "Our Time: Sondheim Duos, Volume 2" reviewed by Dr. Judith Schlesinger

by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
November 3, 2013

This is the follow-up to the 2012 Side By Side: Sondheim Duos by the same brilliant pairing of Tommy Cecil, bass, and Bill Mays, piano. From the opener, the jaunty “Everybody Says Don't" (from Anyone Can Whistle, 1964), it's clear that this 2013 session will unfold like the first--laced with superb technique, imaginative arrangements, feeling and ...

Article: Album Review

Bill Mays Inventions Trio: Life's a Movie

Read "Life's a Movie" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
October 11, 2013

For pianist Bill Mays' Inventions Trio, the third time is indeed a charm, as it would be difficult to find music more charming than that performed by Mays, trumpeter Marvin Stamm and cellist Alisa Horn on Life's a Movie, the trio's third album together (and first for Chiaroscuro Records). This is “chamber jazz" of the highest ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Fred Hersch and Julian Lage: Free Flying

by Victor L. Schermer
August 29, 2013

This album is the latest of several recordings in which pianist Fred Hersch solos or joins forces with some highly intelligent, advanced musicians to provide jazz renditions with a sophisticated, chamber music quality. Others are Hersch's Alone at the Vanguard (Palmetto, 2011); Leaves of Grass (Palmetto, 2005)--an ensemble composition based on Walt Whitman's poems--and two additional ...

Article: Interview

Bill Mays: Inventions, Conventions and Dimensions

by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
July 22, 2013

This title is more than a rhyme: it's an attempt to capture some of the legendary versatility of pianist Bill Mays. “Inventions" refers to his unprecedented, working jazz trio of piano, trumpet, and cello. “Conventions" is a nod to his invaluable contribution to the annual meeting of the International Society of Bassists (in 2013, he played ...

Article: Album Review

Tommy Cecil and Bill Mays: Side by Side: Sondheim Duos

Read "Side by Side: Sondheim Duos" reviewed by Dr. Judith Schlesinger

by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
August 6, 2012

This is a brilliant collection of nine songs associated with composer Stephen Sondheim and delivered by the estimable pianist Bill Mays and excellent bassist Tommy Cecil. Cecil, who initiated and produced the project, is well-known in Washington, D.C., but his huge talent should bring him much wider attention. As for Mays, there's always the sense of ...

News: Recording

Mays, Cecil and Sondheim

July 24, 2012

Our greatest living Broadway composer is Stephen Sondheim. All you have to do is sit through A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Sunday in the Park with George or Into the Woods to be smitten by his wordplay and bitten by his melodies. The songs win you over because they are like ...

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Alan Broadbent Trio: New York, NY, September 24, 2011

by Dan Bilawsky
October 12, 2011

Alan Broadbent TrioKitanoNew York, NYSeptember 24, 2011 Park Avenue's Kitano briefly seemed like Bradley's in its heyday, as piano jazz royalty like Fred Hersch, Bill Mays and Andy Bey converged on a single location to take in the sounds of one of their own. While Alan Broadbent is rightly hailed ...

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Take Five With Frank Giasullo

by AAJ Staff
September 24, 2011

Meet Frank Giasullo: The Frank Giasullo Quartet has created a distinctive sound, enhanced by its strong repertoire of original compositions by Frank Giasullo. Giasullo is a classically trained jazz player but his piano playing and the music he writes comes as much out of his feeling for gospel, folk, and blues ...