Richie Beirach at Maybeck | |
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Live album by | |
Recorded | January 5, 1992 |
Venue | Maybeck Recital Hall, Berkeley, California |
Genre | Jazz |
Label | Concord |
Richie Beirach at Maybeck: Maybeck Recital Hall Series Volume Nineteen is an album of solo performances by jazz pianist Richie Beirach.
The album was recorded at the Maybeck Recital Hall in Berkeley, California [1] on January 5, 1992. [2] Most of the tracks are standards; [3] the final one, "Elm", is the only original, and comes from Beirach's 1979 album Elm. [2] The format "allows Beirach to exploit his romantic credentials with only a nominal interest in the usual bop formulas, and he throws in a few startling unorthodox glissandos here and there to shake everyone up. Very often, he works compellingly with repetitions in the left hand". [3]
Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [3] |
The Penguin Guide to Jazz | [4] |
The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide | [5] |
The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz | [6] |
The AllMusic reviewer described it as "A most absorbing recital, cleanly recorded." [3] The Penguin Guide to Jazz commented that his playing is less abstract than on other recordings, and that the standards are perhaps performed too elaborately. [4] Pianist Liam Noble described Beirach's performance of " 'Round Midnight": beginning "with some quiet colours, he quickly glissandos into expressionistic contrasts of texture: it feels very spontaneous, as if he's embellishing a classic fairytale with every device he can find, making it up as he goes along. The solo section steams along at a double tempo, but it's brought to a sudden halt with a return to softer textures". [7]
Richie Beirach at Maybeck | |
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Live album by | |
Recorded | January 5, 1992 |
Venue | Maybeck Recital Hall, Berkeley, California |
Genre | Jazz |
Label | Concord |
Richie Beirach at Maybeck: Maybeck Recital Hall Series Volume Nineteen is an album of solo performances by jazz pianist Richie Beirach.
The album was recorded at the Maybeck Recital Hall in Berkeley, California [1] on January 5, 1992. [2] Most of the tracks are standards; [3] the final one, "Elm", is the only original, and comes from Beirach's 1979 album Elm. [2] The format "allows Beirach to exploit his romantic credentials with only a nominal interest in the usual bop formulas, and he throws in a few startling unorthodox glissandos here and there to shake everyone up. Very often, he works compellingly with repetitions in the left hand". [3]
Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [3] |
The Penguin Guide to Jazz | [4] |
The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide | [5] |
The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz | [6] |
The AllMusic reviewer described it as "A most absorbing recital, cleanly recorded." [3] The Penguin Guide to Jazz commented that his playing is less abstract than on other recordings, and that the standards are perhaps performed too elaborately. [4] Pianist Liam Noble described Beirach's performance of " 'Round Midnight": beginning "with some quiet colours, he quickly glissandos into expressionistic contrasts of texture: it feels very spontaneous, as if he's embellishing a classic fairytale with every device he can find, making it up as he goes along. The solo section steams along at a double tempo, but it's brought to a sudden halt with a return to softer textures". [7]