This acoustic live piano performance explores three different avenues of personal expression and composition: free improvisation (in accorance with pre-determined key centers, musical textures and road-map), jazz piano honoring the spirit of first, Bill Evans and then Thelonius Monk. And finally, through-composed (classical-like) pieces played note for note(although the music is contemporray!).
Pianist/composer, Fredric Zimmerman, has been exploring methods of both performing and teaching free improvisation for years. The first 26 tracks of this album (both the score in the insert, as well as the performance)present Zimmerman's techniques which are layed out in more detail in his yet-to-be-published book titled, "Speaking Music."
enjoy...fz February 2005
Track List:
1. focus: 1 sharp
2. focus: 3 sharps
3. focus: 5 sharps
4. focus: atonal
5. focus: 5 flats
6. focus: 3 flats
7. focus: 1 flat
8. focus: atonal
9. focus: 4 sharps
10. focus: atonal
11. focus: 2 sharps
12. focus: no sharps, no flats
13. right hand: 2 flats. left hand: 1 sharp
14. right hand: 4 flats, left hand: 1 flat
15. focus: right hand, 6 flats
16. focus: left hand, 1 sharp
17. focus: interval in each hand, 1 flat
18. intervals left hand, single notes right hand: 3 flats
19. intervals right hand, single notes: 5 flats
20. single notes, right hand, 5 sharps, intervals, left hand, 2 shar
21. focus: thirds
22. focus: 7ths
23. focus: 5ths
24. focus: 3 sharps
25. 1 sharp: choral
26. 1 flat: figuration
27. portrait of Bill Evans
28. portrait of Thelonius Monk
29. interval explorations: 2nds
30. interval explorations: 3rds
31. interval explorations: 4ths
32. intervals explorations: 5ths
33. interval explorations: octaves
34. prelude: June 1994
35. prelude: August 1994
36. prelude: September 1994
37. harmonic sketch: May 1994
38. harmonic sketch: May
Suggested CDs:Other Genres:
Pianist/composer, Fredric Zimmerman, has been exploring methods of both performing and teaching free improvisation for years. The first 26 tracks of this album (both the score in the insert, as well as the performance)present Zimmerman's techniques which are layed out in more detail in his yet-to-be-published book titled, "Speaking Music."
enjoy...fz February 2005
Track List:
1. focus: 1 sharp
2. focus: 3 sharps
3. focus: 5 sharps
4. focus: atonal
5. focus: 5 flats
6. focus: 3 flats
7. focus: 1 flat
8. focus: atonal
9. focus: 4 sharps
10. focus: atonal
11. focus: 2 sharps
12. focus: no sharps, no flats
13. right hand: 2 flats. left hand: 1 sharp
14. right hand: 4 flats, left hand: 1 flat
15. focus: right hand, 6 flats
16. focus: left hand, 1 sharp
17. focus: interval in each hand, 1 flat
18. intervals left hand, single notes right hand: 3 flats
19. intervals right hand, single notes: 5 flats
20. single notes, right hand, 5 sharps, intervals, left hand, 2 shar
21. focus: thirds
22. focus: 7ths
23. focus: 5ths
24. focus: 3 sharps
25. 1 sharp: choral
26. 1 flat: figuration
27. portrait of Bill Evans
28. portrait of Thelonius Monk
29. interval explorations: 2nds
30. interval explorations: 3rds
31. interval explorations: 4ths
32. intervals explorations: 5ths
33. interval explorations: octaves
34. prelude: June 1994
35. prelude: August 1994
36. prelude: September 1994
37. harmonic sketch: May 1994
38. harmonic sketch: May
Suggested CDs:Other Genres:
- CLASSICAL: Contemporary
- CLASSICAL: New Age
- TYPE: IMPROVISATIONAL