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John Stetch: TV Trio
by Woodrow Wilkins
Pianist John Stetch makes it clear that the Great American Songbook has a sequel: television themes. With TV Trio, Stetch presents a collection of some of his favorite themes from perhaps the most influential period of this music, the '70s and '80s. Canada-born Stetch earned a Bachelor of Music degree in Montreal and won ...
Bruxin'
By John Stetch
Label: Justin Time Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Inuit Talk; Bruxin'; Circus; Green Grove; The Girl In The Hemp Shirt; Chord-Free Gord; How Far Is Callisto; The Prairie Unfolds; Snark; Heavens Of A Hundred Days; Rectangle Man.
John Stetch: Blending Heritage and the Jazz Tradition
by Ken Kase
Canadian pianist John Stetch has been quietly building a catalog of fine compositions and recordings since his 1992 debut, Rectangle Man (Terra Nova, 1992). He's played in a variety of formats as a sideman and as a leader, he's fronted quartets and trios that have produced new interpretations of music from the standard jazz repertoire as ...
John Stetch Trio: Bruxin'
by Ken Kase
After recording three finely crafted and well-received solo piano albums, John Stetch returns to the trio format for the first time since Green Grove (1999). Bruxin', his first disc to feature a program comprised entirely of original compositions, finds Stetch looking back on some old gems from his past and offering brand new tunes ...
John Stetch Trio: Bruxin'
by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
With this collection of eleven originals, Canadian-born pianist John Stetch enhances his reputation as an innovative performer and composer. Stetch's work is paradoxical: it's simultaneously complex and accessible, earnest and playful; full of quirky rhythms and harmonies, it's still rooted in classic swing. Bassist Sean Smith and drummer Rodney Green are essential to the whirling, welcoming ...
John Stetch Trio: Bruxin'
by Nic Jones
For all the hype that's been lavished on piano trios over the past few years, there are still signs of musical life in the lineup, as Bruxin' exemplifies. This programme of worthwhile music could also serve as a statement of artistic intent, implying a welcome level of individuality. Stetch has gone for a comparatively risky option ...
Exponentially Monk
By John Stetch
Label: Justin Time Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Bright Mississippi; Well, You Needn't; Think Of One; Green Chimneys; Monk's Mood; Gallop's Gallop; Evidence; Ugly Beauty; Criss Cross; Blue Monk; Little Rootie Tootie; 'Round Midnight; Ask Me Now.
John Stetch: Exponentially Monk
by Jim Santella
A solo piano album of classic Monk compositions marks a serious study of what we all like about jazz. The music swings, it has originality, and it provides the performer much room for spontaneity. John Stetch explores each one methodically and with careful consideration. He dampens the piano's strings, alters notes with the pedal, ...
Standards
By John Stetch
Label: Justin Time Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Segment; All The Things You Are; Interlude; Out Of Nowhere; Like Someone In Love; Embraceable
You; Moose the Mooche; Never Let Me Go; Pannonica; Stella By Starlight.
John Stetch: Standards
by Dan McClenaghan
The solo piano can be a tough arena, especially when offering up American Songbook classics. John Stetch's Standards, the pianist's second solo outing and his eighth CD overall, succeeds by taking some unlikely--for solo piano--tunes and getting Zen-deep into them, paring things down to their bare essence, and using quirky rhythms and spare, elegant harmonics.
