Solo piano faves

[Mike Schwartz]

Recordings and performances...lets have at it!

[Mike Schwartz]

I'm lovin' this one right now.....15 selections/11 solo

[Mike Schwartz]

I dig this one too which sparked other discussions.

[Mike Schwartz]

Personal treasure....I have the LP box

[A. Kingstone]

[Mike Schwartz]

[A. Kingstone]

CD's

Still fantastic throughout. I name Art Tatum the first Free Jazz artist.

[stonemonkts]

Paul Bley recorded many great solo sessions. Still my favorite. Few selections:






Don't want to load the page down with images...but also his relatively recent Nothing To Declare (2004), Changing Hands (1990), and Basics (2000).

I can listen to solo Monk all day, from any year.

[Coda]

Released a few years ago.

[Mike Schwartz]

On Blue Note has been OOP for years

[bluenoter]

[Mike Schwartz]

[Tom Storer]

Funnily enough, solo piano is not really a favorite listening scenario of mine. Of course there are many recordings that are fantastic, but I find it's not something I spontaneously want to put on very often.

One of my favorite solo piano recordings is "Jimmy Rowles Plays Ellington and Strayhorn."

I like the elegant old stuff, too, like Teddy Wilson and John Lewis. I heard a recent Alan Broadbent solo CD that sounded fantastic.

Less taken with dramatic, exciting, virtuosic solo piano. McCoy solo would probably be too thunderous for my tastes.

I do like Cecil Taylor's solo outings. But that's almost a genre of its own.

[rawac]

There is a problem with this question: so much music, so little time to listen.

(Ordered by first name, not by better or worse. I don't like ratings)



Abdullah Ibrahim: Senzo, 2008 - Intuition / Schott Music


Brad Mehldau: Live in Marciac, 2006 - Nonesuch Records / Warner


Chick Corea: Children's Songs, 1983 - ECM


Chucho Valdés: Solo - Live in New York, 1998 - Blue Note / Capitol Records


Fred Hersch: Alone At The Vanguard, 2010 - Palmetto-Records


Geri Allen: Flying Toward The Sound, 2008 - Motema Music


Gonzalo Rubalcaba: fe faith, 2010 - 5Passion


Joachim Kühn: Free Ibiza, 2010 - Out Note Records


John Taylor: Phases, 2006 - CamJazz


Kenny Drew Jr.: live at the montreux jazz fastival '99, 1999 - TCB Records


Kenny Werner: Me, Myself & I, 2011 - Justin Time


Marc Copland: Time Within Time, 2004 - HAT HUT Records


Martial Solal: Solitude, 2005 - CamJazz


McCoy Tyner: Solo / Live from San Francisco, 2007 - Half Note Records


Michel Petrucciani: Live In Germany, 1997 - Dreyfus Jazz


Misha Alperin: At Home, 1998 - ECM


Paul Bley: Homage To Carla, 1992 - OWL / Universal Music S.A.


Paul Bley: Alone, Again, 1974 - DIW Records / diskUNION


Paul Bley: Basics, 2000 - Justin Time


Paul Bley: About Time, 2007 - Justin Time


Paul Bley: Caravan Suite, 1992 - SteepleChase


Thelonious Monk: Monk Alone, 1962 - Columbia / Sony / Legacy


Uri Caine: Moloch: Book of Angels Volume 6, 2006 - TZADIK


Vassilis Tsabropoulos: Akroasis, 2002 - ECM


Vijay Iyer: Solo, 2010 - ACT Music + Vision

Perhaps too much Paul Bley in my choice... sorry!

[relyles]

A reent release that I have been enjoying recently:

[moldyfigg]

Nat - Laserlight, 5 vols of the original stuff
O.P - Concertgebouw
Evans - Turn Out The Stars (4 vols.)

You guys are a bunch of pedants.

[Gentle Giant]

[Mike Schwartz]

[jwaggs]

I'm looking for recommendations of recordings by a couple of under-the-radar guys: Dick Twardzik and Art Lande.... You guys got any ?

[jwaggs]

Guess not

[Ron Thorne]