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Greg Burk: Ivy Trio
by John Kelman
Time can be a funny thing. Recorded prior to his last trio disc, Nothing, Knowing (482 Music, 2005), Greg Burk's Ivy Trio shares more in common than just format. Ivy Trio provides alternate views of three Burk originals--"Look to the Neutrino, “Blink to Be and “Operetta --but with a trio featuring bassist Jonathan Robinson and drummer ...
Intervista a Greg Burk
by AAJ Italy Staff
Trentotto anni, americano di madre italiana, Greg Burk è uno dei migliori pianisti della sua generazione. Marco Bertoli su “Musica Jazz" l'ha definito “uno sperimentatore con la serena sicurezza del mainstreamer" e come altri giovani colleghi (pensiamo a Benny Green, Ethan Iverson o Jason Moran) mantiene un profondo rapporto con la tradizione degli anni cinquanta, sulla ...
The Way In
By Greg Burk
Label: 482 Music
Released: 2006
Track listing: Paper Piano; Ballad for Gold; Look to the Asteroid; Ballad for sand; Walking the Earth; Wu-Wei
Out; Serenity
Greg Burk: The Way In
by Budd Kopman
It has been said that a jazz musician exposes his or her soul and is existentially naked when improvising in front of an audience. However, those perfect performances are rare, and most of the time they are just good. At these most common times, a player falls back onto things he has done before, maybe even ...
Greg Burk: The Way In
by AAJ Italy Staff
Figlio d’arte (il padre direttore d’orchestra, la madre cantante lirica, la nonna pianista accompagnatrice di film all’epoca del muto), apprezzato allievo di Yusef Lateef e Paul Bley, per diverso tempo attivo sulla scena musicale di Boston, membro della prestigiosa Either/Orchestra, Greg Burk è un giovane pianista statunitense che da un paio d’anni vive a Roma. Non ...
Greg Burk: The Way In
by Michael McCaw
Greg Burk The Way In 482 Music 2006 Listen In an interview published last November by Paul Olson, pianist/composer/improviser Greg Burk revealed a very telling musical approach. In the interview Burk states that he does not view improvisation as a manner of instantaneous composition the way many people often propose. ...
Greg Burk
by AAJ Italy Staff
01. Charlie Haden - The Montreal Tapes: Volume 2 (Verve - 1989). Con Paul Motian e Paul Bley è un trio di improvvisatori colti al massimo della loro ispirazione. Nonostante suonino insieme da più di quarant’anni la musica è ricca di sorprese e continue scoperte. È grandioso ascoltare Bley re-inventare brani che ha suonato per una ...
Greg Burk: The Way In
by Jerry D'Souza
Since Greg Burk's first three solo recordings were self-released, they may have gone under the radar for many listeners. This is his first recording to have a wide release, and a welcome one at that. It should help bring Burk's solo music to a deservedly larger audience. His thinking is wide-ranging and agile, and this music ...
Nothing, Knowing
By Greg Burk
Label: 482 Music
Released: 2005
Track listing: Old Souls; Prelude to Surrender; Truth be Bold; Look to the Neutrino; Blink to Be; Operetta;
Borneo Dreaming; Big Bird; Doves.
Greg Burk: Everyone Should Be Present
by Paul Olson
Pianist Greg Burk first came to listeners' attention during his tenure with Russ Gershon's Either/Orchestra, appearing on their Afro-Cubism and Neo-Modernism albums while simultaneously releasing his own CDs Checking In and Carpe Momentum. This year has seen Burk do the almost impossible: in a jazz world crowded with superstar pianists, he's put out the best piano ...
