― the table is the table, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 17:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― nonightsweats, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 06:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― xhg, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 06:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― nonightsweats, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 07:53 (seventeen years ago) link
Well maybe not very modern, but Jan Johansson's "Jazz på svenska/ Jazz på Ryska" has been quite popular over the last few years. And it's fucking amazing.― the Dirt, Tuesday, March 6, 2007 2:50 PM (nine years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Jazz på svenska is so good! will check out Jazz på Ryska
― just sayin, Tuesday, 27 September 2016 09:58 (seven years ago) link
Someone I've never seen mentioned on ILM is Neil Cowley, a great contemporary British jazz pianist. His new album Spacebound Apes is lovely.
― heaven parker (anagram), Tuesday, 27 September 2016 12:24 (seven years ago) link
Lost Daylight - Compositions by Terry Jennings and John Cage (played by John Tilbury & Sebastian Lexer)
The Terry Jennings material (played by Tilbury) is especially beautiful
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Tuesday, 27 September 2016 22:49 (seven years ago) link
The new Hauschka album "What If" sounds quite promising. He does lots of interesting things with his prepared piano.http://www.npr.org/2017/03/23/520524495/first-listen-hauschka-what-if?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=firstlisten
― it's the distortion, stupid! (alex in mainhattan), Thursday, 23 March 2017 06:29 (seven years ago) link
gotta be something by or featuring kris davis but i don't know what. spoilt for choice.first paradoxical frog album? "save your breath"?
― massaman gai, Thursday, 23 March 2017 06:33 (seven years ago) link
Perhaps by Harold Budd for me (improvised live).That, or the somewhat older The Harp of New Albion by Terry Riley (just-intonation piano).
― Max Florian, Thursday, 23 March 2017 21:38 (seven years ago) link
Laurence Crane - Michael Finnissy – 20th Century Music - Solo Piano Pieces 1985-1999Terry Jennings / John Cage / John Tilbury / Sebastian Lexer – Lost DaylightPhilip Thomas (4) - Jürg Frey – Circles And LandscapesKlaus Lang / Trio Nexus – SAIS.
Looking for some Cecil Taylor solo recommendations..
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Thursday, 23 March 2017 22:30 (seven years ago) link
William Duckworth - The Time Curve Preludes
― Hideous Lump, Friday, 24 March 2017 02:15 (seven years ago) link
Chucho Valdes - Bele Bele en La Habana/Briyumba Palo Congo - all his 90's Blue Note output is good but I love these 2.
― calzino, Friday, 24 March 2017 06:13 (seven years ago) link
cecil taylor solo recommendations:ALL, but:silent tongues;for olim;air above mountains;indent.
― massaman gai, Friday, 24 March 2017 06:51 (seven years ago) link
I'm not sure I understand what is meant by 'modern piano music.'
― pomenitul, Friday, 24 March 2017 12:29 (seven years ago) link
music played on a modern piano? (not the old type with the horses)i think what was intended was old fashioned john tilbury / toru takemitsu "modernism".words be damned.ach, cecil taylor solo :when i typed "all, but"i meant "all, but these are especially good", not "all, except"
― massaman gai, Friday, 24 March 2017 13:07 (seven years ago) link
I was going to say ... surely your calling these shit, but I thought each to their own!
― calzino, Friday, 24 March 2017 13:13 (seven years ago) link
..not..
It's just kind of weird as it runs the gamut from, say, Bred Mehldau, Nikolai Kapustin and Phil Glass—a motley trio to begin with—to György Kurtág, Michaël Levinas, Unsuk Chin, etc. There are countless possible answers.
― pomenitul, Friday, 24 March 2017 13:36 (seven years ago) link
It is just a recommendation thread, with a vague modern piano music theme - it doesn't need to be about precise categories as long as Geir doesn't come back with Ben Folds Five imo
― calzino, Friday, 24 March 2017 13:56 (seven years ago) link
All Cecil recommendations seconded, but want to add Don Pullen's Healing Force and Evidence of Things Unseen. Pullen had a startlingly unique approach, but had to deal with "You kinda sorta sound like Cecil Taylor!" throughout his whole career, despite the fact that a) he didn't, and b) he arrived at his approach independent of Cecil's influence. His Black Saint boxed set (which includes the aforementioned solo recordings) is absolutely all-killer/no-filler.
And rumor has it his epochal duo 1966 duo recordings with Milford Graves will soon be reissued.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 24 March 2017 14:07 (seven years ago) link
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