John Grey

I started playing piano when I was seven, after listening to my grandmother play by ear for years. I studied music at UCLA where I played analog Moog for awhile before discovering how to get sounds from a computer. That was in the 1960s. Soon after, Roger Shepard (inventor of that tone) became my mentor and enabled me to use the Stanford AI Lab to play with digital sound creation and do psychoacoustic research on it. Then that turned into cofounding CCRMA, the computer music center at Stanford, where I started digitally sampling orchestral instruments and engaged in analysis and resynthesis

Riyoko Takagi

Born: September 20, 1984

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Riyoko Takagi (��ľ �����, Takagi Riyoko) is a Japanese Jazz pianist and composer who isn't bound by a single genre or style and has crossed classical, pop, house, and anime genre boundaries and styles in her compositions, arrangements, and performances. She's renowned for her musicality, deep harmonic understanding, live performances full of energy with fluent improvisations that often involve audience, and delicate touch on the keys. Together with her talent and charming character she continues to proliferate Jazz and attract many fans from all over the world.

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Alessandro Sgobbio: Piano Music

by Neri Pollastri
March 21, 2023

Messosi in luce con progetti come Pericopes+1, Hitra e il trio Feed di Mauro Gargano, sperimentali, dal forte dinamismo e nei quali utilizzava anche tastiere elettroniche, il pianista pugliese residente a Parigi Alessandro Sgobbio presenta adesso un album in piano solo, dal gusto pi�� tradizionale e nel quale mostra pienamente il suo lato lirico.

Piano Music

By Alessandro Sgobbio

Label: AMP Music & Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Fireflies; Zolla; Atma Mater; Ghaza; Racemi; Third Ward (Elegy); Acqua Granda; Feuilles; Third Ward (Coda).

Alessandro Sgobbio: Piano Music

by Dan McClenaghan
August 6, 2022

We ask our artists to give us something of themselves. The solo piano format is a superior way to do this--the musican alone at the piano, no collaboration; and Italian composer/pianist Alessandro Sgobbio presents the essence of his being with his first solo recording, Piano Music. The music is a diary of Sgobbio's experiences ...

Piano Music

By Satoko Fujii

Label: Libra
Released: 2021
Track listing: Shiroku; Fuwarito.

Satoko Fujii: Piano Music

by Karl Ackermann
October 4, 2021

The solo piano works of Satoko Fujii often summon an ethereal ensemble of sounds. Prepared, or in its natural state, her piano speaks as a proxy for the always searching composer/improviser. Fujii's recordings are an ongoing stream of themes based on the here and now for an artist who does not fit neatly into any category. ...

PLS.trio

PLS.trio - pianist Pier Luigi Salami, bassist Martin D Fowler, and drummer Shawn Crowder - lies somewhere in between Northern European jazz and American contemporary jazz, bringing forth a highly energetic and deeply melodious mixture of modern jazz and electronic elements. Tapping musical sophistication and tech savvy to lead their artistic toolkit, the group's focus on melody carries the listener along on a journey drawn from experiences of blazing through city streets and car horns of the trio��s native New York, all the way to landscapes reminiscent of sunny, mid-western countryside fields. The trio released their second album, Cosmonauts, in January 2021 on DotTime Records, after previously completing a world tour in support of their debut album ��East River��, released in February 2015 and acclaimed by press and critics

Pier Luigi Salami

Born: September 25, 1987

Pier Luigi Salami is a pianist, keyboardist, composer, and producer. A dedicated leader of original projects such as the modern jazz ensemble PLS.trio, and an in-demand session musician both in studio and on the road, Pier��s versatility can be appreciated in the music he writes as well as the wide range of projects he is called to be a part of. Born in the north of Italy in the late 80s, Pier moved to Boston to study at Berklee College of Music, from which he graduated with honors in 2010. Most recently he was a finalist in the solo instrumental section of the 2015 ��Made In NY�� Jazz competition

Piano Music

By Andrea Lucchesini / Luciano Berio

Label:
Released: 2007
Track listing: 01. Sonata per pianoforte solo; 02.-07. Six Encores; 08. Rounds; 09. Sequenza IV; 10. Cinque Variazioni; 11. Touch; 12. Canzonetta.