Description
Piano Works 2016-2026 collects fourteen impromptu pieces by composer and producer John Carroll Kirby, written whenever he had the opportunity to sit at a piano while on the road. These mostly solo works for piano were recorded in Los Angeles, Rome, Tokyo, Wollongong (Australia), New Zealand and London.Piano Works marks a departure from the full-band sound of recent albums Blowout and Septet, which Kirby has spent the past years performing live around the world. The album is a study in piano repertoire: Baroque, Romantic, Impressionist, jazz, minimalist, atonal, and more. Most of the pieces have an impromptu feel - improvised, or meant to sound improvised, or at least written in one sitting.The collected pieces on Piano Works are a document of Kirby's life as a piano player and touring musician, and "serve as the melodic / harmonic lexicon for what would inform all my other compositions of the past ten years."
Tracklist:
- MS4
- First Position 1
- First Position 2
- Bendable Pine
- Melody
- Cecilia 14
- Piano #4
- Little Mouse
- Impromptu
- Empty Room
- Suntory
- Valentino
- Rain Walking
UPC: 659457252717
Label: Stones Throw
Release Date: 8.28.26
Format: Vinyl
