Looking for solo piano recommendations

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tjhendry

Looking for solo piano recommendations
« on: 26 Mar 2018, 05:59 pm »
Even though I,m about 800 miles south of home it has still been a cold winter....plenty of time to explore the vaults of Amazon Music Unlimited.  Definitely not hi-rez, but neither is my "system":  iPhone and OontZ  speaker!  Solo piano, jazz or classical, is a lot less sonically demanding than Sun Ra or Verdi so it has been a frequent choice.  Do you have a favorite CD to recommend?  Could be as familiar as Jarrett or Hersch, or as obscure as (fill in the blank).
Here are three of my favorites from recent days.









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Re: Looking for solo piano recommendations
« Reply #1 on: 26 Mar 2018, 06:11 pm »
Cziffra's recording of Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsodies is "holy shit" amazing:


tjhendry

Re: Looking for solo piano recommendations
« Reply #2 on: 26 Mar 2018, 08:12 pm »
Thanks for  Liszt recommendation.  I can stream it from Amazon. Not sure my travel system can make any MP3 sound like “HS” ...maybe tepid doo-doo at best, but I will give ‘‘this and other suggestions a listen.  Those that make the cut will find a place in the collection back home.

GerryD

Re: Looking for solo piano recommendations
« Reply #3 on: 26 Mar 2018, 08:35 pm »
Brad Mehldau....."Live In Tokyo"

Brad Mehldau....."10 Years Solo Live"


hdspeakerman

Re: Looking for solo piano recommendations
« Reply #5 on: 26 Mar 2018, 09:00 pm »
Try some of George Winston's work.  I think you will like it!
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Re: Looking for solo piano recommendations
« Reply #6 on: 26 Mar 2018, 10:09 pm »
+1 on George Winston- Autumn, December, Forest albums to name a few but give a listen to Fiona Joy Hawkings at https://bluecoastmusic.com/store?f%5B0%5D=search_api_multi_aggregation_1%3AFiona%20Joy


Also, Paul De Benedictits Power of One-
https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/pjdb

 A few others-

Oscar Peterson
Keith Jarrett
Michelle Glaser

richidoo

Re: Looking for solo piano recommendations
« Reply #7 on: 27 Mar 2018, 01:02 am »
Some jazz and classical solo piano recordings worth checking out:

Art Tatum Solo (7 CDs)
Lara Downes - Exile's Cafe, Goldberg Variations
Seong-Jin Cho - Chopin and Debussy albums
Ingrid Fliter - Chopin
Thelonius Monk - Solo Monk
Leon Fleisher - Two Hands
Alfred Brendel - Beethoven and Schubert Sonatas
Glenn Gould - Bach 2&3 part inventions, well tempered clavier, violin sonatas, 1981 Goldberg Variations, etc.
John Medeski - A Different Time

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Re: Looking for solo piano recommendations
« Reply #8 on: 27 Mar 2018, 01:21 am »
I don’t think you could go wrong with any of the Maybeck Recital Hall series. The Joanne Brackeen and John Hicks (great player!) are among my favorites.


https://www.discogs.com/label/479429-Maybeck-Recital-Hall-Series


Cheers,
Lester

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Re: Looking for solo piano recommendations
« Reply #9 on: 27 Mar 2018, 01:41 am »
Try:
John Bayless play the Beatles
Emil Gilles: Beethover Sonatas DG

BIS CD-244 recorded in 1984 with Franz Liszt pieces played by Dag Achatz ‎on the very same piano owned by Liszt made to Liszt by Thickering & Sons, unfortunately this company was bought by its competitor Steinway & Sons that closed it.

The sound from this Thickering piano was very impressive and way different from any Steinway, a CD suited to a tube amp.

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Re: Looking for solo piano recommendations
« Reply #10 on: 8 Apr 2018, 10:14 pm »

Bill Evans; Alone
Get the 2002 remaster as it is far superior in SQ to the earlier versions.

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Re: Looking for solo piano recommendations
« Reply #11 on: 17 Apr 2018, 07:08 pm »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuc3MYjBm2U
this is so far ahead of it's time and still sounds amazing 80 years later.

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Re: Looking for solo piano recommendations
« Reply #12 on: 29 Nov 2018, 06:03 am »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuc3MYjBm2U
this is so far ahead of it's time and still sounds amazing 80 years later.

On vinyl or CD? 

matevana

Re: Looking for solo piano recommendations
« Reply #13 on: 26 Mar 2019, 08:00 pm »
Michael Wolff - Swirl

Matthew Shipp - Zero


Two awesome, newly released, solo jazz piano efforts. 

G.Michael

Re: Looking for solo piano recommendations
« Reply #14 on: 26 Mar 2019, 11:11 pm »
A Mapleshade CD:



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Re: Looking for solo piano recommendations
« Reply #15 on: 27 Mar 2019, 03:01 am »
Bill Evans

Not a lot available solo but pretty much all of it superior to everyone else.

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Re: Looking for solo piano recommendations
« Reply #16 on: 27 Mar 2019, 03:52 am »
One of my absolute favorites: Julio Resende - Amalia Por Julio Resende

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Re: Looking for solo piano recommendations
« Reply #17 on: 27 Mar 2019, 11:31 am »
I'll throw in one of my favorites,  Jessica Williams.
 

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Re: Looking for solo piano recommendations
« Reply #18 on: 9 Apr 2019, 12:16 am »
Check out Mulgrew Miller and Fred Hersch. Both great pianists.

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Re: Looking for solo piano recommendations
« Reply #19 on: 9 Apr 2019, 02:15 pm »
Try Abdullah Ibrahim - African Piano ECM JAPO 60002.