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| 1. | Burk's Quirks
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| 2. | Serena Al Telefono
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| 3. | Hymn for Her
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| 4. | Ink
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| 5. | Look to the Astroid
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| 6. | For George Russell
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| 7. | Hupid Stumid
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| 8. | Song for Sara
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Jazz / Post-Bop, Jazz Instrument, Piano Jazz
Aldo Borrelli Engineer
Flavio Bonandrini Executive Producer
Gerald Cleaver Drums
Greg Burk Audio Production, Producer, Cover Photo, Piano
Howard Mandel Liner Notes
Jerry Bergonzi Sax (Soprano), Sax (Tenor)
Jonathan Robinson Bass, Double Bass
Peter Kontrimas Audio Engineer, Engineer
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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