Release Date: 10 July 2013
Label: SLAM Productions
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5028386026020
Genres: Jazz Contemporary
Description
Some of the music in this series of duets and solo performances by the pianists Vladimir Miller and Steve Plews, is scored but much of it is improvised; the artists acknowledge influences of Bartok, Rachmaninov, Keith Tippett, Jaki Byard amongst others.
The result is a fascinating collection of post-modern romanticism at once Lennox Berkeley and Bill Evans. The recordings, made in front of a live audience, capture the atmosphere of a memorable performance. With the percussive intricacy of Millers style warmly enveloped by the rhapsodic technique of Plews, the music varies from quiet introspection to a tour de force of compositional and improvisational virtuosity.
Personnel: Vladimir Miller, Steve Plews (piano)
Tracklisting
Esmond Selwyn
Paul Dunmall, Paul Rogers, Philip Gibbs & Hamid Drake
Lol Coxhill
Lol Coxhill, George Haslam, Howard Riley & Paul Rutherford
Various Artists
Lol Coxhill & George Haslam
Improgressive
Howard Riley & Elton Dean
Nigel Price Organ Trio
Conrad Herwig
Norma Winstone & Kit Downes
Oded Tzur
Su Rossy Girod, Nat Su, Jorge Rossy
Jonathan Salvi Arugula Sextet
Bob Baldwin
Steven Nichols
