John Carroll Kirby - Piano Works (2016-2026)

Piano Works 2016-2026 collects fourteen impromptu pieces by composer and producer John Carroll Kirby, written whenever he had the opportunity to sit at a piano while on the road. These mostly solo works for piano were recorded in Los Angeles, Rome, Tokyo, Wollongong (Australia), rural New Zealand and London. Piano Works marks a departure from the full-band sound of recent albums Blowout and Septet, which Kirby has spent the past years performing live around the world. The album is a study in piano repertoire: Baroque, Romantic, Impressionist, jazz, minimalist, atonal, and more. Most of the pieces have an impromptu feel – improvised, or meant to sound improvised, or at least written in one sitting. The collected pieces on Piano Works are a document of Kirby’s life as a piano player and touring musician, and “serve as the melodic / harmonic lexicon for what would inform all my other compositions of the past ten years.”

Format: vinyl LP
Label: Stones Thrown
Genre: Jazz
Condition: New
Catalogue Number: STH2527LP
Barcode: 0659457252717                  

Tracklist:

1. MS4 2. First Position 1 3. First Position 2 4. Bendable Pine 5. Melody 6. Cecilia 14 7. Piano #4 8. Little Mouse 9. Impromptu 10. Empty Room 11. Suntory 12. Valentino 13. Rain Walking

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