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i have only involved myself with hiromi after what i consider to be last class of greats(herbie, chick, alexander). what other new jazz pianists are noteworthy?

i know people are big on brad mehldau, so what is the big deal on him?
also frank kimbrough?

by Styles on 08/24/2006, 14:02

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marian petrcu is a phenomenal pianist!!

i've often wondered why we don't hear more of him??

jv'

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by jazzvirtuoso on 08/24/2006, 19:12

there are so many great new pianists out there. go out to a club near you and hear one. most great musicians are never recognized by mainstream media much less an internet forum.

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by Mike on 08/27/2006, 09:10

where are you at styles? here in la, there's a ton of great players. but to make it big, i think, it goes beyond just having chops. lots of people have fantastic chops here. but is there any original music? are you doing something different or are you just showing who can do the fastest run? this is why they never get recognized. same in any other genre i suppose.

what makes brad mehldau different? first he's very melodic. he's not trying to pound you with the fastest riff. he does not sound like he's regurgitating riffs. secondly, he's able to squeeze sound of a piano in a different way, primarily because he can do stuff with lh and rh that can be unreal (especially in solo piano). like two separate piano players in two hands. thirdly, he is well known for playing in different meters, overlapping in each hand. he sounds different. some say his playing is melancholy, but it doesn't hit me that way. it draws me in.

as far as other newer names, there's benny green, gonzalo rubalcaba. rubalcaba's chops are just out of this world. you should see him duelling with chick corea. many, many more out there but unless they do something different, they'll never get recognized, particularly in a jazz market that's not getting particularly larger.

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by jazzwee on 08/28/2006, 13:21

chops is only 1 part of music, there's so much more to music than riffs and licks.

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by Robey on 08/28/2006, 13:48

thanks jazzwee for the mehldau info.
i'll listen to him with that stuff in mind. from what i've heard on youtube, he's okay. i can appreciate his lh, but that kind of stuff is inherent in classical music, which i play alot. not saying i'm the best, or maybe even good at it, but it isn't exactly amazing as much as it used to be.

i know of gonzalo, but really isn't different musically...
never heard of benny green. i'll look for him, thanx.

i'm in north western nc, with charlotte and raleigh being the biggest music centers in the state. i think being raised in smaller city like my hometown may have limited my perspective of learning jazz: books, cds, and dvds. so i guess i should take a trip to charlotte and look around then!

thanks alot, if anybody else has names, ideas, or anything else let me know. i'm always up to learn something new!

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by Styles on 08/29/2006, 14:17

being in la, there are jazz cats here who get airplay on our jazz station but not nationally as much. people like shelly berg, alan pasqua, peter erskine (drums), bruce eskovitz come to mind. lots of great music here. i once saw uri caine, he's a nyc. it was kind of a rainy day but there were 10 people watching him, so i felt bad for such a good performer. but poncho sanchez and his latin jazz band can pack up a place any day.

btw-youtube is not a good source of mehldau material. i have a solo piano recording of him on tv. amazing.

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by jazzwee on 08/29/2006, 14:30

personally, i think that brad mehldau is just copying keith jarrett, i'm sorry, but i'm not impressed with his playing. taylor eigsti is pretty good. i find his playing technically clean. also i really like dana landry he is the director of jazz studies at unvirsity of northern colorado-greeley. his album "journey home" is great, recently nominated for a grammy

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by nate_smith on 09/04/2006, 14:14

i studied these two players (jarrett and mehldau). they are not alike or even sound alike, but both being fantastic and melodic improvisors.

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