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Greg Reitan: Antibes
by Dan McClenaghan
Los Angeles-based pianist Greg Reitan's debut, Some Other Time (Sunnyside Records, 2009), introduced a surprisingly mature talent. With a mix of American Songbook gems, some fine originals, a surprise or two, and a couple of jazz standards--all rendered with a distinctively sure and elegant touch--the pianist announced himself as a top tier talent in the crowded ...
Antibes
By Greg Reitan
Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: Antibes; For Heaven's Sake; Waltz for Meredith; One Step Ahead; Fall; Time Remembers One Time Once; Sympathy; September; Re: Person I Knew; Late Summer Variations; Salinas; In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning.
Some Other Time
By Greg Reitan
Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: All of You; Star Song; The Wayfarer; Dear Prudence; Time Remembered; Giant Steps; Northern Windows; Unquity Road; Bordeaux; Joy's Song; Autumn; Some Other Time.
Greg Reitan: Antibes
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Greg Reitan began the year with Some Other Time (Sunnyside, 2009), a spectacularly graceful record. He ends the year with another that equals--if not surpasses--the maturity of that album. Antibes is a work of exacting pianism and expansive grandeur. The record also dispels the notion that Reitan's music is an amalgam of his influences (Bill Evans ...
Greg Reitan: Some Other Time
by Dan McClenaghan
Elegance is a difficult quality to pin down, but you know it when you see it--or hear it. Duke Ellington, of course. Lester Young: Oh yeah. Or to take it into the piano trio game: Bill Evans, Hank Jones, Jessica Williams, Ahmad Jamal.With his debut Some Other Time, Los Angeles-based pianist Greg Reitan can ...
Greg Reitan: Some Other Time
by Raul d'Gama Rose
The notes he strikes--ebony and ivory--stay interminably in the memory, hanging life-like and sensuously, fully laden on the canopy that crowns the mind's mind. Ideas abound and spring forth--even down the choruses of well-worn standards--and they sparkle end-to-end on Cole Porter's “All of You," Guaraldi's “Star Song," and on Bernstein's “Some Other Time," the title song, ...
Greg Reitan Releases 'Some Other Time' on Sunnyside Records
“An old-school trio record of the highest order, Greg Reitan's Some Other Time harkens back to the day when great tunes played by a swinging band were reason enough to make an album." - Keyboard Magazine, February 2009 The modern jazz pianist not only has to ...
