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Re: Piano Music, or Help! I Started Listening to a New Genre(s?)

Anonymous — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 15:38:07 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 02/22/2018 20:38

Re: Piano Music, or Help! I Started Listening to a New Genre(s?)

badseed — Wed, 21 Feb 2018 12:11:32 GMT

Author: badseed

Posted: 02/21/2018 17:11

Thanks for all the replies guys. I'm overwhelmed with these recs but I'll try to give them all a listen in the next week or two.

Re: Piano Music, or Help! I Started Listening to a New Genre(s?)

rkm — Wed, 21 Feb 2018 06:20:27 GMT

Author: rkm

Posted: 02/21/2018 11:20

Not solo, but you've got to get into some Bill Evans...

You Must Believe In Spring by Bill Evans

Re: Piano Music, or Help! I Started Listening to a New Genre(s?)

rkm — Wed, 21 Feb 2018 06:19:31 GMT

Author: rkm

Posted: 02/21/2018 11:19

Solid Colors by Liz Story

Re: Piano Music, or Help! I Started Listening to a New Genre(s?)

rkm — Wed, 21 Feb 2018 06:18:15 GMT

Author: rkm

Posted: 02/21/2018 11:18

The Piano by Herbie Hancock

Re: Piano Music, or Help! I Started Listening to a New Genre(s?)

rkm — Wed, 21 Feb 2018 06:16:48 GMT

Author: rkm

Posted: 02/21/2018 11:16

The Köln Concert by Keith Jarrett

Re: Piano Music, or Help! I Started Listening to a New Genre(s?)

rkm — Wed, 21 Feb 2018 06:14:52 GMT

Author: rkm

Posted: 02/21/2018 11:14

Songs Without Words by Fred Hersch

Re: Piano Music, or Help! I Started Listening to a New Genre(s?)

rkm — Wed, 21 Feb 2018 06:10:20 GMT

Author: rkm

Posted: 02/21/2018 11:10

Open, To Love by Paul Bley

Re: Piano Music, or Help! I Started Listening to a New Genre(s?)

rkm — Wed, 21 Feb 2018 06:08:45 GMT

Author: rkm

Posted: 02/21/2018 11:08

10 Years Solo Live by Brad Mehldau

Re: Piano Music, or Help! I Started Listening to a New Genre(s?)

Anonymous — Wed, 21 Feb 2018 01:20:51 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 02/21/2018 06:20

Cecil Taylor's Silent Tongues, Garden, Erzulie Maketh Scent, and Willisau Concert.

Re: Piano Music, or Help! I Started Listening to a New Genre(s?)

AwaitingAndrew — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 22:13:39 GMT

Author: AwaitingAndrew

Posted: 02/21/2018 03:13

My favorite is honestly Vince Guaraldi's A Charlie Brown Christmas but yeah, not exactly the season for it. As someone else mentioned, Erik Satie is a good choice, specifically the Gymnopédies.

Also a good one:

Solo Piano by Philip Glass

And this isn't a solo piano album as you can surmise by Louis Armstrong's name being present but I adore this record:

The Great Reunion by Louis Armstrong And Duke Ellington

The album is mostly found these days in combination with their first release, Recording Together For The First Time, and are released together on Apple Music & Spotify as The Great Summit: The Master Takes. If you happen to dislike Satch then you may not like this one, but Duke Ellington is one of the best jazz pianists and you can't go wrong with any of his releases.

Re: Piano Music, or Help! I Started Listening to a New Genre(s?)

Tha1ChiefRocka — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 21:51:25 GMT

Author: Tha1ChiefRocka

Posted: 02/21/2018 02:51

While these might not be the same type as the fellows you mentioned, here are the piano players I have been listening to lately.

Link

A different take on the 12 tone scale.

Link

I only learned of this guy a couple weeks ago, but damn! He's good, even adds some scatting/beatboxing type stuff in their as well from time to time (which technically means it's not solo, but who cares).

Link

This album wasn't able to be listened to for awhile without a physical copy, now it's on youtube finally.

Re: Piano Music, or Help! I Started Listening to a New Genre(s?)

AfterHours — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 20:25:36 GMT

Author: AfterHours

Posted: 02/21/2018 01:25

badseed wrote:

AfterHours wrote:

Hamelin is probably the most technically accomplished pianist in Classical music. Sometimes his effortlessness seems to inhibit his emotional connection with the music, with for instance, Beethoven's sonatas, which thrive on the tension produced by the pianist (and were surely composed with this in mind). But more often then not, he has made excellent recordings (especially with more modern, 20th century works).

My Classical lists include among its entries from diverse genres, many of the greatest solo piano (and keyboard/organ) works in the history of music (not fully updated yet)... Probably would start with Beethoven and Schubert's Piano Sonatas...

Greatest Classical Works: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=15061
Best Recordings of each: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=15098&start=0

To this I would add, at or near the top of the heap, from Jazz:
Lady of the Mirrors - Anthony Davis (1980)
The Koln Concert - Keith Jarrett (1975)

Jarrett's Koln Concert is probably the pinnacle (in all of music history) of what it seems like you're looking for...

Nice. I'll look into these. Of course I'm familiar with a little Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, Handle, Tchaikovsky, Chopin, Wagner, etc. (not even sure how many of them are even on topic as much of what I've heard requires numerous instruments) but not all of it. I have listened to the Koln Concert actually. It's probably the only full album of its type I've heard but it is pretty amazing.

Right on. I was only referring to the solo piano/keyboard works on that list in reference to your question. It doesn't sound like you'd have much/any trouble acclimating to Anthony Davis. Lady of the Mirrors is utterly astonishing, very existential and profound. Possibly the greatest solo piano work ever, and hardly anyone knows it (thought it's slowly/gradually becoming more and more well known).

Re: Piano Music, or Help! I Started Listening to a New Genre(s?)

badseed — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 20:17:58 GMT

Author: badseed

Posted: 02/21/2018 01:17

AfterHours wrote:

Re: Piano Music, or Help! I Started Listening to a New Genre(s?)

AfterHours — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 20:00:09 GMT

Author: AfterHours

Posted: 02/21/2018 01:00

Hamelin is probably the most technically accomplished pianist in Classical music. Sometimes his effortlessness seems to inhibit his emotional connection with the music, with for instance, Beethoven's sonatas, which thrive on the tension produced by the pianist (and were surely composed with this in mind). But more often then not, he has made excellent recordings (especially with more modern, 20th century works).

My Classical lists include among its entries from diverse genres, many of the greatest solo piano (and keyboard/organ) works in the history of music (not fully updated yet)... Probably would start with Beethoven and Schubert's Piano Sonatas...

Greatest Classical Works: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=15061
Best Recordings of each: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=15098&start=0

To this I would add, at or near the top of the heap, from Jazz:
Lady of the Mirrors - Anthony Davis (1980)
The Koln Concert - Keith Jarrett (1975)

Jarrett's Koln Concert is probably the pinnacle (in all of music history) of what it seems like you're looking for...

Re: Piano Music, or Help! I Started Listening to a New Genre(s?)

PurpleHazel — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 19:31:50 GMT

Author: PurpleHazel

Posted: 02/21/2018 00:31

Michael Dulin sounds very influenced by classical music. One of his song titles references the classical composer and pianist Erik Satie.

Everything that's coming up by Marc Andre Hamelin on Spotify's classical, so he appears to be mostly a classical pianist playing solo piano compositions.

Glenn Gould's the most famous classical pianist these days, but I only know his Goldberg Variations albums. You'd probably prefer the 1955 version over the faster 1981 version, except for maybe the sound quality.

I'm not as knowledgeable about classical music as some other members, so maybe one of them could recommend solo piano compositions and performers.

My favorite jazz solo piano album's Keith Jarrett's Koln Concert. Though it's all improvised, it's very melodic and was a big influence on new age music.

Piano Music, or Help! I Started Listening to a New Genre(s?)

badseed — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 18:32:10 GMT

Author: badseed

Posted: 02/20/2018 23:32

I don't remember exactly how it came about. I've been using Pandora a lot lately. I made a station where I tagged artists from basically every genre just to see what an "everything" playlist would sound like. A few hours into the station suddenly a lovely song comes on by a pianist named Michael Dulin. It was so beautiful I immediately tagged Dulin in a new station so that I could listen to it. After an hour of just blissful lounge music I Googled best modern pianists and the name Marc-Andre Hamelin is #1 on some list so I made a station of him and it's a completely different style. Still just a solo piano player but in a faster, more complex/technical style. More like a jazzy film score as opposed to Dulin's style which is akin to the kind of stuff you hear playing in a fancy department store. Maybe that was just the songs I've heard so far and I'm generalizing prematurely. Both styles are very good though.

So yeah, if there's anybody who's into the solo pianist genre(s) please educate me a little bit on the different styles and some of your favorites.