Cat No:
SCD2161X
Release Date: 10 March 2017
Label: Savant Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 633842216126
Genres: Jazz Contemporary
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Description
Bill O'Connell is woefully under-recorded as a solo artist, given that he has been the first-call pianist for names like Mongo Santamaria, Sonny Rollins, Gato Barbieri and Jerry González's Fort Apache Band, to name but a few. On this CD, recorded in a beautiful-sounding concert venue in Westchester County, NY he plays his own compositions with some covers of the standards "The Song is You", "It Could Happen to You" and "Afro Blue".
Solo piano albums require real skills from the improvising artist to keep the listeners' ears glued to the music. The musical history of solo piano recordings is long and rich, and contains much emotionally compelling music. The demonstration is here.
O'Connell's playing is very satisfying, not ostentatious or prone to dramatic effects, but is focused on careful development and further expansion of initial ideas. Imaginative in spirit, his improvisations are quite controlled, never wild, never cloyingly sweet, yet very lyrical and impressionistic. A rare and winning combination.
Personnel: Bill O'Connell (piano)
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Tracklisting
- 1. The Song Is You
- 2. Dindi
- 3. Monk's Cha Cha
- 4. It Could Happen to You
- 5. Zip Line
- 6. Afro Blue
- 7. Hither Hills
- 8. Gibberish
- 9. White Caps
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Like Minds
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For All We Know
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Find A Heart
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The Latin Side of Mingus
Conrad Herwig
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A Change Is Gonna Come
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It's All Your Fault
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The Dark, the Light, the Grey and the Colorful
JD Allen
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Artform Revisited
Louis Hayes
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A Change Is Gonna Come
Bill O'Connell
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Jazz Latin
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Live in Montauk
Bill O'Connell
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Heart Beat
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