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Greg Burk: Many Worlds

Read "Many Worlds" reviewed by Troy Collins

by Troy Collins
January 19, 2010

A startlingly original improviser, rising pianist Greg Burk straddles a confluence of traditions, seamlessly balancing the spontaneity of free jazz with the discipline of mainstream conventions. A former Either/Orchestra member and student of Paul Bley, Yusef Lateef, George Russell and Archie Shepp, Burk possesses an uncanny gift for melody that surpasses many of his peers. On ...

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Many Worlds

By Greg Burk

Label: 482 Music
Released: 2009
Track listing: Sonny Time; BC; Lost Time; Storm Cloud; Look to the Lion; Many Worlds Suite: Many Worlds; The Strong Force; Waves / Scattering Matrix; In Pursuit of Matter; Particular; The Spirit Will Take You Out.

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Article: Interview

Antonio Ciacca: Bringing People Together Through Swing

by John Barron
June 9, 2009

Antonio Ciacca knows a thing or two about multi-tasking. The New York-based pianist is a tireless statesman of jazz, composing music for his own small groups, arranging for various big bands and working as Director of Programming for Jazz at Lincoln Center. Adding to all of this, Ciacca and his wife are busy raising five children ...

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Berlin Bright

By Greg Burk

Label: Black Saint
Released: 2008
Track listing: Fancy Pants; The Invisible Child; Back Home; Zoo for Two; Ugly Butterfly; Without Annette; First Impression; Tiny Tune; Auslanderlied.

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Greg Burk Quartet: Berlin Bright

Read "Berlin Bright" reviewed by Terrell Kent Holmes

by Terrell Kent Holmes
May 2, 2008

Pianist Greg Burk embraces deconstruction and counterpoint as a player and composer, so a playful method to the madness runs through his excellent new album Berlin Bright. The opener, “Fancy Pants," exemplifies how Burk solos and writes with mild chaos in mind. After the theme the tune fractures schizophrenically, with Ignaz Dinne soaring melodically up front ...

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Greg Burk: Ivy Trio

Read "Ivy Trio" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 12, 2008

La figura di Greg Burk sta rapidamente acquisendo i riconoscimenti che merita. Visto che da qualche anno s'è trasferito a Roma, il pubblico italiano ha modo di apprezzare uno dei pianisti più creativi delle generazione tra i trenta e i quarant'anni: ci sono infatti varie occasioni per ascoltarlo dal vivo ed i suoi dischi per la ...

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Ivy Trio

By Greg Burk

Label: 482 Music
Released: 2007
Track listing: Look to the Neutrino; Blink to Be; Dumbo

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Greg Burk: Ivy Trio

by Nic Jones
November 24, 2007

It takes its time, this music. On first listen it comes on like the work merely of an accomplished piano trio that ticks all those boxes labeled with qualities such as technical accomplishment, urbanity, harmonic sophistication and the like. Further listening, however, reveals something a whole lot more worthwhile. The spirit of Herbie Nichols stalks the ...

News: Recording

Greg Burk's "Ivy Trio" Now Available on 482 Music

November 14, 2007

482 Music is proud to announce the November 13th release of Rome-based pianist/composer Greg Burk's latest CD, Ivy Trio (482-1038), featuring bassist Jonathan Robinson and drummer Luther Gray. This is Burk's third release on the label in as many years and the one he calls “the most complete expression of my ideas with regards to composition ...

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Greg Burk: Ivy Trio

Read "Ivy Trio" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza

by Jerry D'Souza
November 14, 2007

Pianist Greg Burk found the perfect ambience in a study lounge of a Harvard University dormitory to record this album. He says that the environment was as close to his childhood living room as a studio could be. Burk also reveals that he was contemplating the direction the music would take while swimming in Walden Pond. ...