Results for "Greg Burk"

Album

As A River

By Greg Burk

Label: Tonos Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: One Day; Five Petals; Sun Salutation; As A River; Radiant Heart Blossom; The Slow Hello; The Union; Confluence Of Color; Serena Al Telefono; Into The Rapids; Love Wins; Beyond The Bend; The Slow Goodbye; Rivers To Tears; Sequoia Song.

Video

Greg Burk Trio: Woodward Stride from The Detroit Songbook

Featuring the music of Greg Burk
Duration: 13:48
June 8, 2019

Live performance of "Woodward Stride" during "The Detroit Songbook"' live showcase, organized by Agus Collective in Rome with Matteo Bortone (double bass) and John B. Arnold (drums). "The Detroit SongBook" was released by SteepleChase Records in 2018.

Article: Album Review

Greg Burk: As A River

by Don Phipps
June 6, 2019

Having studied with George Russell and Paul Bley, and performed with Kenny Wheeler, David Murray and Steve Swallow, there is no doubting Greg Burk's bona fides. And with As a River, Burk has fashioned a series of deeply-felt original compositions--15 in all--that would make his mentors proud. Burk's compositions are edgy and serene, bluesy ...

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Take Five With Greg Burk

by Greg Burk
May 28, 2019

About Greg Burk Following his acclaimed 2016 release Clean Spring on SteepleChase Records, American pianist and composer Greg Burk returns with solo piano As A River--his 12th and most lyrical album to date. The son of classical musicians, Burk spent his formative years on the jny: Detroit jazz scene, followed by studies ...

Musician

Greg Burk

Born: June 24, 1969

Pianist/composer/educator Greg Burk has lived, studied, educated and performed around the world. Over the last decade, living and working in Detroit, Boston and now Rome, he has established himself not only as a vital sideman, but also as a leader with the rare ability to combine original compositions with memorable melodies and a desire to push the creative envelope as an improviser. He has been called "an exceptional pianist/composer" (All Music Guide), "a pianist and composer with vigorous, freewheeling ideas that always feel grounded within a well-reasoned structure" (Boston Herald), "a pianist with a gift for melody and a generous touch that makes you want to like him" (LA Weekly), and a musician that "plays with an apparent love and passion for his craft" (AllAboutJazz)

Album

Detroit Songbook

By Greg Burk

Label: SteepleChase Records
Released: 2018

Album

Deep Blue Sky

By Greg Burk

Label: Pink House Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: Boson Bounce; Spacetime Slide; Starbright Reverie; Celestial Caress; Triad Again; Elliptic Incantation; Run Neutrino Run; Dep Blue Sky; We Go.

Article: Album Review

Greg Burk Expanding Trio: Deep Blue Sky

by Maurizio Zerbo
May 13, 2017

Deep Blue Sky ripropone la sonorità elettrica del sintetizzatore Moog, con scansioni ritmiche tra jazz e funky. Il canone di riferimento, in voga negli anni Settanta, viene talora rinverdito con una dimensione ritmica contemporanea. C'è pure spazio per le sonorità acustiche, magnificamente rivelate dall'aura intimistica ed introspettiva di “Starbright Reverie." Oltre a rispecchiare maggiormente ...

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Buenos Aires Jazz Festival 2016

by Mark Holston
January 9, 2017

Buenos Aires International Jazz FestivalBuenos Aires, Argentina November 23-28, 2016 The Buenos Aires International Jazz Festival is slowly but steadily becoming one of the elite events of its kind. The recently-concluded 16th edition of the annual series of concerts, clinics and films was more stylistically-expansive than in past years. The six day ...

Album

Clean Spring

By Greg Burk

Label: Steeplechase Lookout
Released: 2016
Track listing: Song For Iaia; Blues For Yusef Lateef; A Simple Question; Solo Una Camminata; Clean Spring; Serena; Oasis; Four Reasons; Escher Dance; Amore Trovato; Ionosphere; Out At Night; Tonos; Not Forever.