don't care to discuss terminology but a contemporary (as in composing/playing *now*) composer i'm enjoying is julien marchal (insight 1)
his pieces are very simple, mellow and melodic, but it's the type of old man background music i would write and i find it comforting
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Friday, 24 March 2017 16:43 (seven years ago) link
what do people think of that solo pno jazz record the master and the margarita? I remember hearing some of it on the radio ages ago and being pretty into it but I never followed up. Can't remember the guy's name.
― chip n dale recuse rangers (Jon not Jon), Friday, 24 March 2017 16:52 (seven years ago) link
The Russian pianist Simon Nabatov?
― calzino, Friday, 24 March 2017 17:45 (seven years ago) link
Yesss that's him. Do you know it?
― chip n dale recuse rangers (Jon not Jon), Friday, 24 March 2017 17:48 (seven years ago) link
I had a period of listening to a few of his albums last year and that one I never got around to, I think mainly because I downloaded it in the Ape format which my player doesn't like. I think it was his solo album of Brazilian standards that reeled me in, it is called Around Brazil and is really quite beautiful.
― calzino, Friday, 24 March 2017 18:07 (seven years ago) link
I have been loving some Dave Burrell trios today. His Expansion album with William Parker and Andrew Cyrille, and Momentum one with Formanek and drummer Guillermo E. Brown are both brilliant. He reminds of Mal Waldron in the way he mixes old bluesy trad jazz styles with hard angular avant-garde free jazz in a wonderful way at times.
― calzino, Sunday, 25 June 2017 15:07 (six years ago) link
A guy with whom I worked in a restaurant in my early 20s just released this solo piano album that is terrific
https://jadjemian.bandcamp.com/releases
― fgti, Sunday, 25 June 2017 15:27 (six years ago) link
I've listened to a lot of Nils Frahm recently - love Solo, Wintermusik, Felt - but is he a bit sub rosa for this thread?
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Sunday, 25 June 2017 22:31 (six years ago) link
Max Richter - The Blue Notebooks
― enochroot, Sunday, 25 June 2017 22:49 (six years ago) link
a friend at work introduced me to Joep Beving (the albums Solipsism + Prehension).. it reminded me of Nils Frahm's work, but more affecting.
a recent favorite is Des pas sur la neige by Eve Risser
https://youtu.be/pboY9n0jCnw
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Sunday, 25 June 2017 22:52 (six years ago) link
Marylin Crispell Trio - Live In Zurich
― nicky lo-fi, Monday, 26 June 2017 01:25 (six years ago) link