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| Ivy Trio |
| Greg Burk |
első megjelenés éve: 2007
53 perc |
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| (2007)
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CD |
| 5.370 Ft
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| 1. | Look to the Neutrino
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| 2. | Blink to Be
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| 3. | Dumbo's Dilemma
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| 4. | Hupid Stumid
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| 5. | Ducks and Gulls
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| 6. | Operetta
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| 7. | Billie's Bounce
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Jazz
Greg Burk (piano)
Luther Gray (drums)
Jonathan Robinson (bass)
Bill Ahearn Mastering
Greg Burk - Producer, Mixing, Liner Notes, Audio Production
Tyler Wood Mixing, Engineer
This is Burk's third release on the label in as many years and the one he calls "the most complete expression of my ideas with regards to composition and group conception to date." Ivy Trio documents six Burk originals, including re-imaginings of four previously recorded tracks, plus an interpretation of Charlie Parker's "Billie's Bounce."
"Ivy Trio was recorded in a study lounge in a Harvard University dormitory with elegant old couches and chairs, heavy curtains and carpeting, and an early 1900's Steinway B," remembers Burk in the liner notes. "This environment was as close to my childhood living room as a studio can be. The resonance I felt with my surroundings on the day of this recording put me in a state of profound relaxation and enabled me to express myself at my most lucid and personal level. Not only did I feel entirely at home in this environment, I was also playing with two musicians with whom I shared a deep trust. This session was like sharing a bottle of wine around the kitchen table with a group of friends."
"Burk, while still relatively young, has all the makings of a musical giant," writes AllAboutJazz.com Senior Editor John Kelman. Critics have called his music "mesmerizing" (Andrew Lindemann Malone, JazzTimes), "inquiring and uncomplacent" (Nate Dorward, Cadence), and "explosive and lyrical at the same time" (Bill Shoemaker, PointofDeparture.org). Burk has lived and worked all over the world, performing and recording with luminaries such as Jerry Bergonzi, Gerald Cleaver, the Either/Orchestra, Garrison Fewell, George Garzone, Michel Lambert, Dave Liebman, Bob Moses, Rufus Reid, Steve Swallow and John Tchicai. Since moving from Boston to Rome three years ago, he has worked extensively on the European jazz scene, performing at dozens of festivals and presenting workshops all across Italy. Ivy Trio is his sixth recording as a leader.
"Top Ten 20007"
--- Philip Clark, Jazz Review
"...Burk presents a piano trio of a different stripe... creates on-the-spot spontaneous composition that is easy to recognize, tough to pigeonhole, smartly conceived, and well realized."
--- Michael G. Nastos, All Music Guide
"Ivy Trio is his second effort in this format; in comparison with its predecessor, Nothing, Knowing, which featured Bob Moses and Steve Swallow, Ivy is a gathering of peers, a more casual and comfortable affair... the session as a whole flows with effortless continuity and cohesion, slipping in and out of well-constructed song forms and open-ended "free" zones, creating a nice balance of push and pull, ebb and flow. Although half of these tunes received treatment on Nothing, Knowing, here they are new and "improved," a tribute to the collaborative nature of the musicians."
---Tom Greenland, All About Jazz New York
Greg Burk resides in Rome, Italy, but this CD recalled days when he was living in the Metro-Boston area, working with the Either/Orchestra and being inspired by swimming in the legendary Walden Pond. Many years prior he initially connected with bassist Jonathan Robinson and drummer Luther Gray at a class Archie Shepp taught at U-Massachusetts. Recorded in a study lounge at Harvard, the Ivy Trio, reunited 14 years later, parallels few piano-bass drums triads, as they suggest the European stylings Burk would later adopt. Burk, a clearly talented and forward-thinking pianist, is searching for new variance in nuance and phrasings. He is swinging sweet and light during "Dumbo's Dilemma," and takes an alluring samba to heart on "Operetta." "Duck & Gulls," clearly inspired by the Pond, is introspective and moody, but more percussive than melodic. He digs in on a powerful "Hupid Stumid," muscular and direct, but not pushy, rambles quite freely during "Blink to Be," and wittily changes chords in a unique fashion on the bop warhorse "Billie's Bounce." The first tune "Look to the Neutrino" is completely disarming and not reflective of the rest of the album. A knuckle-curve for sure, it utilizes a thorny, muddy, dense Moog synthesizer, sounding like a Farfisa organ, and is similar to a Bad Plus stance before Burk goes back to the acoustic piano. It's not bad, just incongruent. This is a minor quibble, for Burk presents a piano trio of a different stripe, removed from influences, save maybe Paul Bley, and creates on-the-spot spontaneous composition that is easy to recognize, tough to pigeonhole, smartly conceived, and well realized. ~ Michael G. Nastos, All Music Guide
Greg Burk has lived and performed all over the world, establishing himself both as a vital sideman/composer and a bandleader with the rare ability to combine memorable original compositions with a desire to push the creative envelope as an improviser. Before moving to Rome in June 2004, he was a longtime member of the Boston music scene, where he built his reputation teaching at Boston's Berklee College of Music, performing/composing with bands such as the Either/Orchestra, and leading his own groups featuring jazz luminaries including Jerry Bergonzi, Gerald Cleaver, Garrison Fewell and Bob Moses among many others.
Critics have called him an "exceptional pianist/composer" (All Music Guide), "a pianist with a gift for melody and a generous touch that makes you want to like him" (LA Weekly), and "a pianist and composer with vigorous, freewheeling ideas that always feel grounded within a well-reasoned structure" (Boston Herald). AllAboutJazz.com reviewer Budd Kopman writes, "Burk has in himself, and strives to bring out in his sidemen, that which I consider one of the highest achievements in jazz: the ability to be rhythmically free, while all the time maintaining audible contact with the prevailing pulse, giving the impression that he could touch down onto it whenever he wants."
Greg Burk
Birth Place: Lansing, MI
Decades Active: 1990,2000
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Mainstream Jazz, Jazz Instrument, Piano Jazz, Post-Bop
post-bop pianist Greg Burk was born in Lansing, MI, to parents both active in classical music. He studied piano from a young age, sometimes with his improv-minded grandmother, and joined his high school's jazz band while playing gigs for pay on the side. He studied at UMass-Amherst with Yusef Lateef and Archie Shepp, and finished his bachelor's degree at the University of Michigan. After college, he moved to Bratislava, Slovakia, and toured central Europe with his own trio for a year before returning home. Burk hit the jazz scene in Detroit and Ann Arbor hard, honing his performance and compositional skills with the likes of James Carter, Rodney Whitaker, and Gerald Cleaver, among many others. At age 25, he entered the New England Conservatory of Music, where he completed his master's degree with teachers like George Russell, Danilo Perez, and Paul Bley, the latter of whom became a major influence on his approach. Burk subsequently remained in Boston to perform and record as a sideman. Burk recorded his first solo piano CD, Progressions and Digressions, not long after graduating, and in 1999 he became an assistant professor at the Berklee School of Music. He also played keyboards in the fusion outfit Fat Dragon, which issued the album Dream After a Large Lunch in 2000, and formed Bouncing Bach with guitarist Garrison Fewell, which arranged Bach themes for jazz quartet. Burk joined the reconstituted Either/Orchestra and appeared as a pianist and composer on their 2002 album Afro-Cubism. The same year, he made his first internationally available recording as a leader with the Greg Burk Trio, which also featured bassist Jon Robinson and drummer Bob Moses; Checking In was released on Soul Note to positive reviews. ~ Steve Huey, All Music Guide |
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