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Dave Frank: Portrait of New York

Read "Portrait of New York" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
October 20, 2010

New York-based Dave Frank is a piano style unto himself. With the most solid left hand playing jazz piano, Frank delights in composing and improvising the most devilish bass lines, defying Einstein's rule governing space and time. Frank's last recording, Ballads and Burners (Jazz Heads, 2007), amply demonstrated why Frank has a Jazz School named for ...

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Ballads and Burners

By Dave Frank

Label: Jazzheads
Released: 2007
Track listing: Spirit of the Burn; Rousseau's World; The Mechanization of America; Information Highway; Salvador Dali In a State of Grace; Jackson Pollack At Work; Shades of Renoir; Afternoon in Nahant; Like People in Heat; Portrait of Manet; Allied Forces, It's Alright With Me.

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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: Ballads and Burners

Read "Ballads and Burners" reviewed by Budd Kopman

by Budd Kopman
June 22, 2007

The liner notes to Ballads and Burners states, “There are no pitch/speed alterations or edits on any of the tracks..."--because the pure physical speed of some of the playing is not to be believed. Chops does not music make, however. Fortunately, pianist Dave Frank is as much a musician as he is a ...

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Dave Frank: Ballads & Burners

Read "Ballads & Burners" reviewed by Michael P. Gladstone

by Michael P. Gladstone
May 24, 2007

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, ...