jenks
thread death
I thought about this last night. No-one here really discusses much in the way of jazz.
I had just put on a Bill Evans' album and was wallowing in the sheer lambent beauty of his playing and started to think 'sometimes, just sometimes, the piano is the most perfect of all instruments' (of course other times i think it's the xylophone, others the violin and, on occasion, the guitar).
Got me thinking about who my favourite piano players are at the moment, most of the list is jazz, but not entirely so (the list is quite clearly a mere snapshot as well):
Bill Evans
Keith Jarrett
Herbie Hancock
Uri Caine
Glenn Gould
Red Garland
Esbjorn Svensson
Leif Ove Andsnes
Brad Mehldau
Duke Ellington
I really tried to get into Matthew Shipp but just found him too hard and angular, felt no ease with him. Maybe it was the particular disc i chose (it had a version of 'Autumn Leaves' which bore no real relation to the tune as i knew it).
So, anyone elseout there I should be listening to - from above it's pretty obvious i love the trio.
I had just put on a Bill Evans' album and was wallowing in the sheer lambent beauty of his playing and started to think 'sometimes, just sometimes, the piano is the most perfect of all instruments' (of course other times i think it's the xylophone, others the violin and, on occasion, the guitar).
Got me thinking about who my favourite piano players are at the moment, most of the list is jazz, but not entirely so (the list is quite clearly a mere snapshot as well):
Bill Evans
Keith Jarrett
Herbie Hancock
Uri Caine
Glenn Gould
Red Garland
Esbjorn Svensson
Leif Ove Andsnes
Brad Mehldau
Duke Ellington
I really tried to get into Matthew Shipp but just found him too hard and angular, felt no ease with him. Maybe it was the particular disc i chose (it had a version of 'Autumn Leaves' which bore no real relation to the tune as i knew it).
So, anyone elseout there I should be listening to - from above it's pretty obvious i love the trio.