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Misha Piatigorsky

Misha Piatigorsky, winner of the 2004 BMI Thelonious Monk Composers Competition, is one of the most innovative pianists on the music scene today. His unique marriage of powerful melodies with intensely driving rhythms makes his sound a fresh voice that excites the heart and mind. Misha has produced many records both for himself and other musicians featuring his compositions and arrangements. He is the pianist and musical director for singing legend Mark Murphy, and can be found performing with him in New York clubs such as Birdland, Iridium, and Dizzy’s Coca-Cola Club, as well as internationally

Stained Glass & Technicolor Grooves

By Misha Piatigorsky

Label: Natural Drummer
Released: 2018
Track listing: Where’s The Sun; Nachlaot; Superhero; Close Your Eyes; Pure Imagination; Moten Swing; Afro Blue; Inside Straight; Misha’s Mood; I Wish I Knew How It Feels To Be Free.

Misha Piatigorsky: Stained Glass & Technicolor Grooves

by Chris Mosey
August 15, 2018

When the story of the Jewish immigrant influence on American jazz comes to be told, after the Trump era with its narrow perspectives has passed, the name Misha Piatigorsky will be writ large in the telling. He is one of the most sought-after pianists on the New York scene, his music busy and ...

Meet Francesca "Cha Cha" Miano

by Tessa Souter and Andrea Wolper
October 3, 2016

A Newport Jazz Festival-New York concert at Carnegie Hall in the early 1970s got Queens native Francesca “Cha Cha" Miano hooked on hearing live jazz--even though, she says, some of the music she heard on the mixed bill that night was way ahead of her at the time. Little did she know that her magnificent obsession ...

Cristina Morrison: Baronesa

by Edward Blanco
October 25, 2015

After visiting the Galapagos Island to film a docudrama based on the life of Baroness Eloise Von Wagner de Bosquet, Ecuadorian-American mezzo soprano vocalist Cristina Morrison loved the place so much she moved to Ecuador and spent ten years there. Falling in love with the story of the Baroness, her second album Baronesa, presents the songstress ...

Cristina Morrison September 29 "Baronesa" CD Release Concert At Rockwood Music Hall

September 12, 2015

Singer & actress Cristina Morrison returns to Rockwood Music Hall for her Baronesa album concert release on Jazzheads. Morrison here plays with an array of vocal styles bringing to her interpretation her background as an actor. On stage her show has organically evolved into a more theatrical experience as she works with visual artist Laia Cabrera. ...

Paris Troika

By Misha Piatigorsky

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2010
Track listing: Space Oddity; Purple Haze; Three Tears At Midnight; Elejoey; Hotel California; Light My Fire; Layla; We Are The Champions (No Rematch); Sketchy Black Dog; Imagine; Message In A Bottle.

Paris Troika: Paris Troika

by C. Michael Bailey
May 25, 2010

Paris Troika Paris Troika Self Produced 2010 The horizon of hip jazz keyboard trios is littered with the likes of The Bad Plus, Medeski, Martin, Woods, the Big Apple Trio and Soulive. Too cool for school. Because in jazz, contrary to Duke Ellington's supposition that there are only two types ...

Misha Piatigorsky: Paris Troika

by Dan Bilawsky
May 21, 2010

Popular music and jazz have always been connected but, over the years, a bit of a divide has developed. A large portion of songs lumped under the Great American Songbook heading were the popular music of their day. As folk and rock began to eclipse jazz in the public eye, some people refused to get on ...

Misha Piatigorsky: 17 Rooms

by Marcia Hillman
January 14, 2010

A clue to pianist Misha Piatigorsky's 17 Rooms is the title of its opening track, “Open Window"--a window that lets in a breath of fresh air. Joined by bassist Boris Kozlov and drummer Ari Hoenig, Piatigorsky offers a mixture of bebop, gospel and classically-based styles that shows off his pianistic and composing abilities. ...