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East of the Sun

Michael Kocour

East of the Sun

Price: € 19.95
Format: CD
Label: OA2 Records
UPC: 0805552216226
Catnr: OA2 22162
Release date: 01 March 2019
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Label
OA2 Records
UPC
0805552216226
Catalogue number
OA2 22162
Release date
01 March 2019
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About the album

Pianist Michael Kocour brings many gifts to this solo piano recording of gems from the Great American Songbook: melodic creativity, harmonic acuity, swinging rhythmic gait, supple technique, an elegant touch, and bell-like tone, ebullient spirit and refined taste. But lording over all these qualities is this meta truth: Kocour is a compelling storyteller whose playing reaches across the footlights, pulling listeners inside the music where magic happens on the fly. Each improvisation here reveals the cohesive scaffolding and clarity of a tightly constructed short story - while the natural flow of Kocour’s phrasing contains myriad unexpected details that suggest subtle plot twists. Blink and you’ll miss them.
Der Pianist Michael Kocour bereichert diese großartige Kavieraufnahme mit Edelsteinen aus dem Great American Songbook: mit melodischer Kreativität, harmonischer Schärfe, schwingendem rhythmischen Gang, geschmeidiger Technik, eleganter Note und glockenähnlichem Ton, sprudelndem Geist und raffiniertem Geschmack. Aber über all diese Qualitäten herrscht diese Meta-Wahrheit: Kocour ist ein überzeugender Geschichtenerzähler, dessen Spiel über das Rampenlicht hinausreicht und die Zuhörer in die Musik hineinzieht, wo Magie im Fluge passiert. Jede Improvisation offenbart hier das zusammenhängende Gerüst und die Klarheit einer straff konstruierten Kurzgeschichte - während der natürliche Fluss von Kocours Phrasierung unzählige unerwartete Details enthält, die auf subtile Plotwendungen hinweisen.

Artist(s)

Michael Kocour (piano)

MICHAEL KOCOUR is an Associate Professor and the Director of Jazz Studies at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona. Hailed by the Chicago Tribune as 'one of the most sophisticated pianists in jazz,' Kocour has performed at venues around the world and has been a guest on Marian McPartland's internationally syndicated NPR program 'Piano Jazz.' Among the many artists and ensembles with whom he has appeared with are Dizzy Gillespie, Eddie Harris, James Moody, Eddie Daniels, Randy Brecker, Benny Golson, Lewis Nash, Ira Sullivan, Carl Fontana, Dewey Redman, Lew Tebackin, and the Chicago Symphony.
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MICHAEL KOCOUR is an Associate Professor and the Director of Jazz Studies at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona. Hailed by the Chicago Tribune as "one of the most sophisticated pianists in jazz," Kocour has performed at venues around the world and has been a guest on Marian McPartland's internationally syndicated NPR program "Piano Jazz." Among the many artists and ensembles with whom he has appeared with are Dizzy Gillespie, Eddie Harris, James Moody, Eddie Daniels, Randy Brecker, Benny Golson, Lewis Nash, Ira Sullivan, Carl Fontana, Dewey Redman, Lew Tebackin, and the Chicago Symphony.

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Michael Kocour (piano)

MICHAEL KOCOUR is an Associate Professor and the Director of Jazz Studies at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona. Hailed by the Chicago Tribune as 'one of the most sophisticated pianists in jazz,' Kocour has performed at venues around the world and has been a guest on Marian McPartland's internationally syndicated NPR program 'Piano Jazz.' Among the many artists and ensembles with whom he has appeared with are Dizzy Gillespie, Eddie Harris, James Moody, Eddie Daniels, Randy Brecker, Benny Golson, Lewis Nash, Ira Sullivan, Carl Fontana, Dewey Redman, Lew Tebackin, and the Chicago Symphony.
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MICHAEL KOCOUR is an Associate Professor and the Director of Jazz Studies at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona. Hailed by the Chicago Tribune as "one of the most sophisticated pianists in jazz," Kocour has performed at venues around the world and has been a guest on Marian McPartland's internationally syndicated NPR program "Piano Jazz." Among the many artists and ensembles with whom he has appeared with are Dizzy Gillespie, Eddie Harris, James Moody, Eddie Daniels, Randy Brecker, Benny Golson, Lewis Nash, Ira Sullivan, Carl Fontana, Dewey Redman, Lew Tebackin, and the Chicago Symphony.

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