What's your favourite modern piano music album?

..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.

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

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.

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

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.

The Russian pianist Simon Nabatov?

Yesss that's him. Do you know it?

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.

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.

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

I've listened to a lot of Nils Frahm recently - love Solo, Wintermusik, Felt - but is he a bit sub rosa for this thread?

Max Richter - The Blue Notebooks

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

Marylin Crispell Trio - Live In Zurich