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| 1. | Into Onto
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| 2. | Coming on the Hudson
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| 3. | Rooster Dance
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| 4. | Necessaire
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| 5. | Tim Bim Bop
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| 6. | Dark Song
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| 7. | Second Hand Smokin' (At Green Mill)
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| 8. | Where Are You?
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| 9. | Eat Me Bailey
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| 10. | While We're Young
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Jazz
Steve Million - piano
Dave Marr - bass
Tim Davis - drums
Steve Million is a pianist of distinction, adept at surprising interpretations of jazz and Great American Songbook standards but is also well-known for using his seemingly unlimited creative instincts and songwriting to inspire a new generation. On Poetic Necessities, he figuratively addresses subject matter relevant to life's ongoing realities on ten songs that range from Thelonious Monk's standard "Coming on the Hudson" to Jerry Goldsmith's "Dark Song." His playing is not only melodic, but alternates with an intensity that sears his improvisations into the listener's memory banks and creates considerable interest throughout the entire program. In-the-pocket and swinging on "Rooster Dance," the trio brings you full circle with their phrasings, mixed meters and control. Restrained fire that occasionally scorches is the best description for "Second Hand Smokin,'" a nearly seven-minute swinger that Million recorded at Chicago's Green Mill jazz club. Million contributed four originals to this commercially successful recording. When compared to his previous releases such as Thanks a Million, it's quite apparent that his musical visions remain beautiful, inspired, and can still produce a wide range of original songs that have elevated him into the front ranks of jazz interpreters.
---Paula Edelstein, All Music Guide
Steve Million
Active Decades: '80s, '90s and '00s
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Mainstream Jazz, Post-Bop, Swing
A fixture on the Chicago jazz scene since 1988, pianist Steve Million finally made his recorded debut as a leader in the mid-1990's with Million To One (on Palmetto), featuring Randy Brecker and Chris Potter. Million remembers seeing and talking to Count Basie when he was seven. Although he played a little bit of piano as a child, he did not take music seriously until high school. Million spent a year at North Texas State and then studied classical music at the University of Missouri at Kansas City. During 1978-80 he worked steadily in the Kansas City area, spent a year in New York, moved back to Kansas City and during 1984-88 was the musical director for blues singer Ida McBeth. He moved to Chicago in 1988, was a semi-finalist in the Thelonious Monk Piano Competition and has worked in many different settings since including with Kevin Mahogany, Von Freeman, Carmell Jones, Slide Hampton and Ira Sullivan among many others. For a time Million headed an unusual piano-organ-drums trio called Monk's Dream that exclusively performed Thelonious Monk tunes.
---Scott Yanow, All Music Guide
"Million's fourth release as a leader,
"Poetic Necessities" (Blujazz) shows off his talents as a triple threat: a fine pianist with a feel for the bop idiom; a clever writer.and above all, someone with a sharp sense of programming."
- Jazz Times Magazine
"A remarkable stylist. He plays with agility and tact"- Philadelphia City Paper
"A thinking man's pianist." - Chicago Tribune
Pianist and composer Steve Million's 2003 Blujazz release, "Poetic Necessities," was on the national jazz charts for two months, and features his Chicago based working trio: David Marr, bass and Tim Davis, drums. Million is one of the busiest pianists in Chicago and the Midwest. His piano playing is distinct, intelligent, emotionally generous, and swinging. It is shaped by timbres and rhythms that speak of his passion for the music of Thelonious Monk and his great respect for progenitors like Duke Ellington, Cedar Walton, and Paul Bley.
His prior releases have earned him praise such as, "Million's originals speak well of their author...." from Jazz Times, and Downbeat's coveted ****1/2. A semifinalist in the annual Thelonious Monk Piano Competition, Steve is an educator as well as club and concert touring artist. He is on the faculty of Illinois Benedictine College in Lisle, IL, and can be heard frequently at Chicago's Green Mill. |
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