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Tunes & Explorations

Label: Toy Piano Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Baking Magels; It Could Happen to You: I Should Care; Honeysuckle Rose; Send In the Clowns; Long Ago and Far Away; If I Should Lose You; Pure Imagination; Fun Ride; Sweet and Lovely; Sister Sadie.

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Bad Lover

Label: Toy Piano Records
Released: 2022

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Florian Ross: Tunes & Explorations

Read "Tunes & Explorations" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Variety and nostalgia are the essence of Tunes & Explorations, the twenty-second album by German-born composer/arranger Florian Ross who observes his fiftieth anniversary by dipping into the Great American Songbook to revive and reshape for his splendid octet a number of luminous evergreens from the Golden Age of American music. Ross underlines the ...

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Florian Ross Octet: Tunes & Explorations

Read "Tunes & Explorations" reviewed by Pierre Giroux


Florian Ross is a German-born composer, arranger and jazz pianist who has a fondness for releasing albums with double names which began with his debut release Seasons & Places (Naxos Records, 1998). He has continued with that “idée fixe" in almost every year in which he has delivered a release. This year is no exception; the ...

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Reason & Temptation

Label: Toy Piano Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: 01 Progress Report; 02 Dandelion; 03 Ignorance is Bliss; 04 Rondo #4; 05 Shallow; 06 Teriyaki Terrier; 07 Reckoning; 08 Celeste; 09 Make a Swish; 10 Broomstick; 11 U.A.F.; 12 Reckoning (alt); 13 Fever Dream

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Florian Ross: Reason & Temptation

Read "Reason & Temptation" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Midsummer 2019 was quite a busy time for Florian Ross. Apparently, the German-born pianist recorded the quartet date Reason & Temptation from June 29-July 2, then returned the following day to the same studio in Koln and added a wind ensemble to record Architexture for another label (Naxos). Reason & Temptation was self-produced on Ross's own ...

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Swallows & Swans

Label: Toy Piano Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: 01 Midway 02 Horologe of Eternity 03 Recurring Dream 04 Swallows 05 Solid Air 06 Looking Inward 07 Cold Smoke 08 Albatros 09 The Silver Swan 10 Kolibri 11 Trip to the Watercooler 12 The Lark in the Clear Sky

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Pigs & Fairies

Label: Toy Piano Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: Spamtrails; Slow Thinker; Spinning Kenny; Triumph of Spectacle; Trip-wire; Calm; No Pun Intended; Until Then; Miasma; Friction; Think Slower.

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Florian Ross Trio: Pigs & Fairies

Read "Pigs & Fairies" reviewed by Jack Bowers


As a composer, German-born pianist Florian Ross seldom strays from the musical basics: melody, harmony, rhythm. As a performer, however, he uses those same basics to fashion a broad palette of sound, coming at the listener from a variety of routes and angles cannily designed to deepen an over-all mood of singularity and anticipation.

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Lines & Crosscurrents

Label: Toy Piano Records
Released: 2015
Track listing: Arp I; Exhibit A; Augmented Reality; Etch-a-Sketch; Moxel; Manifold; Greenland; Novachord; Venture Cabinet; Driftwood; Rough Patch; Arp II.


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