What's your favourite modern piano music album?

what I was looking for was maybe rather piano music with a non-classical or non-jazz approach

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

Someone I've never seen mentioned on ILM is Neil Cowley, a great contemporary British jazz pianist. His new album Spacebound Apes is lovely.

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

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

gotta be something by or featuring kris davis but i don't know what. spoilt for choice.
first paradoxical frog album? "save your breath"?

Perhaps by Harold Budd for me (improvised live).
That, or the somewhat older The Harp of New Albion by Terry Riley (just-intonation piano).

Laurence Crane - Michael Finnissy ‎– 20th Century Music - Solo Piano Pieces 1985-1999
Terry Jennings / John Cage / John Tilbury / Sebastian Lexer ‎– Lost Daylight
Philip Thomas (4) - Jürg Frey ‎– Circles And Landscapes
Klaus Lang / Trio Nexus ‎– SAIS.

Looking for some Cecil Taylor solo recommendations..

William Duckworth - The Time Curve Preludes

Chucho Valdes - Bele Bele en La Habana/Briyumba Palo Congo - all his 90's Blue Note output is good but I love these 2.

cecil taylor solo recommendations:
ALL, but:
silent tongues;
for olim;
air above mountains;
indent.

I'm not sure I understand what is meant by 'modern piano music.'

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"

I was going to say ... surely your calling these shit, but I thought each to their own!

..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