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| Remembering the Way Home |
| Steve Million |
| első megjelenés éve: 2008 |
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| (2008)
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| 4.300 Ft
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| 1. | Remembering
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| 2. | Mannequin Ballet
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| 3. | Nomadrigal
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| 4. | The Way Home
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| 5. | Azusa Dreams
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| 6. | Prelude Opus 16 No.3 (Scriabin)
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| 7. | My Explanation
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| 8. | Missing Page
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| 9. | Open the Book
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| 10. | A Heart So Full
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| 11. | The Company You Keep
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| 12. | Hymnal
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Jazz
Recorded: Steve Ford Studio, October, 2007/March 2008
Steve Million - Solo Piano
Inspired by his return to classical piano studies, Chicago pianist Steve Million was driven to explore and record a collection of his original compositions in a solo setting. With new technical and aural vistas discovered, Million collected old and new pieces and a Scriabin Prelude arranged for improvisation to present in this thoughtful and nuanced recital. One of the most active pianists in Chicago, Million is known to many through his recordings over the last 15 years with sidemen including Randy Brecker, Chris Potter, Dick Oatts and Michael Moore.
Produced by Steve Million
Recorded and mixed by Larry Hinds
Mastered by Brian Schwab
Steve Million photo by Jon Randolph
Traycard photo by Azusa Million
Cover design by John Bishop
After plenty of time spent in small-group formats (including the short-lived Monk's Dream trio with piano and organ together), Chicago pianist Steve Million took the opportunity to make his first solo piano recording. Interestingly, instead of his previous influences in Monk and others, Million makes use of a more recent foray into classical music as a seed for creation here. All the works are original compositions from Million (with the exception of a Scriabin prelude that he rearranged), and feature a delicate touch on the piano. Where Monk might recompose a piece to play with its rhythm, Million employs little of that approach (though there is a Monk-like passage in "The Way Home"). Instead, he takes to the compositions as a third stream player, bringing jazz sensibilities to classical motives. The pieces sparkle and shimmer under Million's fingers, remaining beautiful as they cascade out bar by bar. The sheer beauty of the performance is the key to this record. The compositions don't lend themselves to great flights of exploration or heavy grooves (and neither does the solo piano format, for that matter), but they provide a fine canvas for Million to paint his pictures. The notes drip from him, and the songs form themselves along the way. Remembering the Way Home may not fit with a lot of straightforward jazz collections, but the performances here make for an outstanding album.
--- Adam Greenberg, All Music Guide
Steve Million
Active Decades: '80s, '90s and '00s
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Swing, Post-Bop, Mainstream Jazz
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 |
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