Another really great listen is the album In My Ellingtonian Mood on which Grissett accompanies saxophonist Pee Wee Ellis. Highly recommended!!!
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Check out Richie Beirach on this fabulous live album. Great pianistic skills and amazing improvisational creativity…
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This is a brilliant album and he’s only 15!
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A really great artist. Sounds more mature than many grown-up pianists…
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Here are some suggestions:
Solo
Trio
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Sextet
There are three more recommendations here.
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Vijay Iyer is really brilliant. Here’s another album worth checking out…
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Check out Bill O’Connell, a great Latin jazz pianist.
This YouTube video gives a brief insight into O’Connell’s latest release, the album “Jazz Latin”.
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I had not known Django Bates, but the “Blue Maqams” cured that! He’s very good in the album, but he was even better in the live session I just heard traveling in Zürich. He has a way of generating droning rhythms and overtones that is unlike any of the other working jazz pianists I follow.
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Listening to it right now, thanks, Perfect dinner jazz. Very different from his Zürich performance, in interesting ways. There’s a stride-like flavor in some of the tracks that reminds me a bit of Jason Moran.
Carla Bley’s work with Steve Sallow and Andy Sheppard has been growing on me:
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One can’t imagine Brian Blade’s deeply rooted Fellowship Band without Jon Cowherd. He also leads from time to time, and I keep coming back to his so gently felt Mercy:
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If you are open to something less mainstream, Sylvie Courvoisier’s D’Agala shows her modern jazz/modern classical virtuosity. This is my favorite 2018 release so far, beautifully recorded and featuring two of the best ‘NYC avant-garde’ sidemen, Drew Gress on bass and Kenny Wollesen (although Wollesen is only virtually NYC, he’s mostly based in Santa Cruz, CA).
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Beautiful improvisation. Thanks for the recommendation
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I am rediscovering my Three Blind Mice Treasuries.
Great Jazz
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Anyone familiar with Ray Bryant and could recommend albums of him to listen first?
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His Stride album, on TIDAL, is just eight 30-second samples. Boo.