Results for "Frank Carlberg"

Frank Carlberg

Pianist, composer Frank Carlberg is a native of Helsinki, Finland. Following some years of classical studies, he became interested in jazz after listening to his father’s recordings of Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Oscar Peterson. Initially, Carlberg tried to imitate the players of the records and then took some lessons from local jazz musicians. In 1984 Carlberg decided to enroll at Berklee College of Music in Boston. While at Berklee he played with fellow students such as Jim Black, Chris Cheek, Antonio Hart, Sam Newsome, Chris Speed, Ben Street, as well as faculty members Robert Freedman, George Garzone, Hal Crook, Herb Pomeroy and John LaPorta

Charity and Love

Label: Red Piano Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Charity and Love; Mary Lou, Mary Blue; Zodiac Impressions; Ancient Winds; Mary's Aries; Broken Stomp; Big Sky, Dark Clouds; Soul and Jazz; Hop, Skip, Jump; Water Under the Bridge; Waving Goodbye.

Night Devoid of Stars

By Daniel Hersog

Label: Cellar Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Cloud Break; Motion; Makeshift Memorial; Night Devoid of Stars; Smoke Gets in Your Eyes; Indelible; Song for Henrique.

Gray Moon

By Frank Carlberg

Label: Red Piano Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Vradiazi; Bebopper; El Cant Dels Ocells; Take The A Train; Pinky; Dr Mabuse; Round Midnight; Gunther's Magic Row; Stratusphunk; Wish I Could Talk To You Baby; Vanguard; Memphis; No More; Tea For Two; Short Life Of Barbara Monk; Mood Indigo.

Ran Blake: Gray Moon, When Soft Rains Fall and Northern Noir

by John Ephland
December 5, 2020

I'm a sucker for musical duets. Duets that make me feel like I'm in the same room with the two of them. Here we have three recent releases with the iconoclastic, legendary Ran Blake, now 83, in what is his most typical setting. Yes, to hear Blake paired up like this is to hear ...

Cloud Break

October 6, 2020

Album: Night Devoid of Stars
By Daniel Hersog
Label: Cellar Records
Released: 2020
Duration: 8:34

Piano Forte: Chick Corea & Ran Blake/Frank Carlberg

by Doug Collette
September 3, 2020

Originally classified as a percussion device, the piano these days is also generally considered a stringed instrument and, certainly under the right hands, those eighty-eight keys have the ability to conjure up fluid lines that effectively combine melody and rhythm. It is hardly a surprise then that such a versatile tool has evolved into one of ...

Daniel Hersog Jazz Orchestra: Night Devoid of Stars

by Jerome Wilson
July 11, 2020

Daniel Hersog is a Canadian trumpet player and composer, here presenting his first big band album, a set of sweeping and progressive orchestral jazz which reflects the current state of the world with shifting moods of unease and cautious optimism. Hersog has a expansive style of writing that draws as much from classical music ...

Daniel Hersog Jazz Orchestra: Night Devoid of Stars

by Jack Bowers
June 17, 2020

Daniel Hersog is the latest arrival in a long-running parade of world-class jazz composer-arrangers from Canada, albeit not in the image of Rob McConnell, Phil Nimmons or Rick Wilkins but more akin to some of his mentors including (but not limited to) John Hollenbeck, Ken Schaphorst and Dave Holland. Night Devoid of Stars (named for a ...

Aubrey Johnson: Unraveled

by C. Michael Bailey
June 14, 2020

What does it take to move music from the strictly aural to revealing the more tactile elements like texture and consistency? Vocal artist, composer and arranger Aubrey Johnson, with her scoring hat on, demonstrates that intelligent instrument choice and subtle arrangement of notes in time coupled with sensitive sound engineering can produce music with a palpable ...