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| 1. | Old Souls
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| 2. | Prelude to Surrender
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| 3. | Truth be Bold
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| 4. | Look to the Neutrino
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| 5. | Blink to Be
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| 6. | Operetta
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| 7. | Borneo Dreaming
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| 8. | Big Bird
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| 9. | Doves
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Jazz / Post-Bop, Mainstream Jazz
Greg Burk (piano)
Steve Swallow (electric bass)
Bob Moses (drums)
"Top Ten 2005" - Daniel Spicer, One Final Note
Featuring the renowned rhythm section team of electric bassist Steve Swallow and drummer/percussionist Bob Moses. The Rome-based pianist/composer's 482 Music debut, and follow-up to his first two well-received recordings as a leader on Italy's legendary Soul Note label, continues his documentation of an increasingly personal sound forged by a penchant for memorable melodies as well as probing improvisation.
"This recording is about discovery," writes Burk in the liner notes. "The intent of the music on Nothing, Knowing, as a whole, is to facilitate a wide range of emotional, sonic and spiritual creativity. As I've discovered on previous recordings, this approach keeps me more open to the realm of discovery, more attuned to the moment. An improviser, I believe, should enjoy the challenge and joy of embracing different contexts for communicating in music. In the moments of discovery this process brings about, the world expands to infinity and the familiar becomes fascinating, returning us to the childlike state of knowing less and seeing more. This is the spirit I hope I have captured here."
Pianist Greg Burk's explorative music covers a wide range of idioms. Sometimes his out-of-tempo ruminations recall Paul Bley, and he is joined and stimulated by two of Bley's former sidemen, bassist Steve Swallow and drummer Bob Moses. But on the 19-minute "Truth Be Bold," Burk's intense and free playing is closer to that of Cecil Taylor, while some of the briefer selections swing in their own fashion. This program definitely keeps one guessing, for Burk is difficult to easily categorize as anything but a creative jazz musician. His interplay with his sidemen is nearly telepathic at times (they all have big ears) and they consistently shift musical directions and share thoughts together. Listeners who enjoy explorative and passionate jazz improvising will definitely want this outing. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide
"The world of piano trio records is vast. Though filled with many excellent dates, there is a glut of mediocre, if downright boring records. Without naming names on either side of the fence, seldom does a release come along that rises above the pack of mediocrity. Just when one might think that everything has been done or that there is little hope, along comes pianist Greg Burk's latest outing, Nothing, Knowing..."
---- Jay Collins, One Final Note
"...the best piano trio album of 2005..."
---Paul Olson, All About Jazz
"Without a doubt, one of the finest piano trio offerings I've heard in a long while."
--- Bruce Gallanter, Downtown Music Gallery
"A lot of piano trio recordings are released every year, but for sheer scope and unencumbered interplay that magically retains a sense of lyricism throughout, Nothing, Knowing stands out from the rest: continued evidence that Burk, while still relatively young, has all the makings of a musical giant."
---John Kelman, All About Jazz
"His interplay with his sidemen is nearly telepathic at times and they consistently shift musical directions and share thoughts together. Listeners who enjoy explorative and passionate jazz improvising will definitely want this outing."
---Scott Yanow, 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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