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I got legendary session musician, Chuck Leavell's new live CD "Live in Germany: Green Leaves & Blue Notes" just released in May. This is one of the few guys that inspired me to want to play piano again. After the recent Stones tour finished, Leavell got a small rock combo together to tour Europe.
If some of you on the forum don't know him by name he has been touring pianist with the Rolling Stones since the 80s and has also toured & recorded with Eric Clapton & the Allman Brothers.
Now although there is obviously a big piano presence on this double CD it is more of a band album covering rock'n'roll, light jazz & southern rock blues and some of Leavell's solo work as well. You've got songs covering the likes of the Stones, Allman Brothers, George Harrison, Ray Charles among others. Other band members solo on tracks as well.
Its a lively CD with great piano runs and solos that lets you enjoy a great pianist without it being a study of any kind.
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Thanks for that, Glimmer! I have been looking for a Chuck Leavall album that put his his keys to the forefront of the mix.
Without music life would be a mistake
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Originally posted by pastafarian:
Thanks for that, Glimmer! I have been looking for a Chuck Leavall album that put his his keys to the forefront of the mix. Have you heard his "Forever Blue" CD ? I'm pretty sure its just a solo piano album.
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Among the 'not just piano' albums no one has mentioned Bruce Hornsby: Camp Meeting, Harbor Lights, Hot House & Here Come the Noise Makers all demonstrate his pure piano genius. (Avoid Big Swing Face - no piano in it!)
What about Keith Emerson too? There is always great playing on the ELP albums. Solo "Emerson plays Emerson" is good, but mostly more down beat than you might expect appart from his adaptation of Alberto Ginastera's Suite de Danzas Criollas (Creole Dance) which is truly stunning.
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"Roots - The Solo Piano Album" by Laurie Z. is a wonderful album. Laurie's music has the sophistication and grace of classical piano music yet her structures and harmonies follow the verse-chorus structures of Elton John.
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I'm with Swingal in enjoying pretty much everything Peterson recorded, but my two favourite piano albums are by Art Tatum, playing mostly with others:
God is in the House
Pablo Group Masterpieces Vol 1 with Benny Carter
God is in the House; (the swinging, fun, after-hours recordings from 1940/41, including)
Sweet Lorraine, Fine and Dandy - wonderful improvisation on a battered upright, possibly my favourite Tatum track.
Toledo Blues, Knockin Myself Out - the first one is uniquely intimate (not that I can improvise & sing anyway)
Lady Be Good & Sweet Georgia Brown - amazing comping as he swings with Frank Newton on horn - and some of the earliest outside phrases of be-bop style ever recorded...
Pablo Group Masterpieces - Vol 1 with Benny Carter;including
Undecided, a pretty naff tune that Tatum takes on a riotus rhythmical journey,
Blues in Bb, where he beautifully censors the unnecessary and has you thinking 'I could play that' then puts in an horrendously fast arpeggio and stonking top to bottom run,
A Foggy Day, by his third time through at about 3 minutes he's really warmed up
Old Fashioned Love, My Blue Heaven -love the intro...etc
Carter could really keep up with Tatum, his melodies somehow enhancing the harmonies and drive that Tatum brought to the group; it's like they inspired each other and as a whole became greater than the sum of the parts.
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A great recent one is last year's Kid's: Live at Dizzy's Club. It's a duet album with Hank Jones and Joe Lovano. Since there is no bass and drums, all of Hank Jone's solos are solo piano, and when he comps for Lovano (sax), he's got to play it all. The playing is easy, swinging and absoultely masterful. If you like reharmonizations, download Jones's solo version on the disk of Oh What a Beautiful Mornin.
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As this thread has been resurrected, I would point out to jotur and DeepElem that since they posted about Marcia Ball and post-Blue House, Her Tallness has released a Live album...you must order it immediately!! http://www.marciaball.com/
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Oh, thank you JDelmore. I do believe there's a couple of things there I don't have yet Cathy
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