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Rebecca Harrold: The River of Life
by C. Michael Bailey
Pianist/composer Rebecca Harrold is a single-handed reminder of the charms of early “new age" piano music while, at the same time, taking it to a different, more melodically complex level, on her debut, The River Of Life, a spiritually inspired collection of original compositions. Harrold has had her thumb in many musical pies, including the female ...
Jeroen Van Veen: Philip Glass - Solo Piano Music
by C. Michael Bailey
Composer Philip Glass remains a leading figure in American classical music after a fruitful career spanning six decades. Creator of symphonies, chamber music, operas and soundtracks, Glass has established himself as an immediately recognized artist whenever his compositions are played. His popular renown derives from his notable movie scores that include: Hamburger Hill (1987), The Thin ...
Gulf Coast Blues & Impressions 2 – A Louisiana Wetlands Benefit
Label: JJ-Tracks
Released: 2012
Derrick Bang: Vince Guaraldi at the Piano
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Vince Guaraldi at the Piano Derrick Bang 390 pages ISBN: 978-0-7864-5902-5 McFarland Books 2012 Based on Derrick Bang's encyclopedic biography of pianist Vince Guaraldi, you can draw two perhaps surprising conclusions about the subject's contribution to jazz. First, Guaraldi arguably hipped more listeners to this musical form ...
Bill Carrothers: Family Life
by C. Michael Bailey
Pianist Bill Carrothers gets personal in Family Life. Entering the stream of Americana flowing straight down the middle of jazz, Carrothers produces his Kinderszenen (1838) after German composer Robert Schumann, or, at the very least, his Woodland Sketches (1896) after American composer Edward MacDowell. Family Life is is a carefully constructed set of musical miniatures capturing ...
Lynda Arnold & Daniel Berkman Debut Instrumental Piano CD “Hammer Inventions”
Composers Lynda Arnold and Daniel Berkman have released their debut CD, Hammer Inventions. The 18 original instrumental compositions consist of acoustic piano orchestrations with electronic layered sampling, the latter of which were created entirely from sounds and noises generated from a wide variety of acoustic pianos, including several Yamaha pianos, which the duo endorses. The skilled ...
Lisa Hilton: American Impressions
by C. Michael Bailey
Lisa HiltonAmerican ImpressionsSelf Produced2012 The last few years have seen the release of significant jazz recordings celebrating Americana. The majority of these have been devoted to jazz vocals and include: Jacqui Sutton's novel “Frontier Jazz" concept as manifested on her 2010 release Billie & Dolly (Toy Blue Typewriter ...
Great Jazz Deserves To Be Heard And Seen At It's Best
by Toby Gleason
Why I'm filing a mass take-down notice on YouTubeFor several decades, my father committed himself to championing the popular emergence of jazz, and engendering proper respect for the musicians who devoted their careers and lives to the music that had long been dismissed to the sidelines of main stream American culture. Ralph J. Gleason ...
Bill Cunliffe: That Time of Year
by C. Michael Bailey
West Coast pianist Bill Cunliffe has released a most welcome holiday disc in That Time of Year. With Christmas coming commercially before Halloween in bigger and more brazen waves each year, having the music of the season reduced to its sheer elements by a well-versed master is refreshing, if not spiritually reviving. Cunliffe's pianism is urbane ...
Alan Adams: My Notes
by C. Michael Bailey
Solo piano recordings of all-original music often bear the burden of being dumped in the same genre bin with George Winston, Jim Brickman and David Lanz. For Portland, Oregon native Alan Adams, this would not be only unfair, it would be unfortunate. Music this finely crafted and wrought was made not only to be listened to ...
