This Single-Layer SACD can only be played on a Super Audio CD Player!
Excellent Jazz Trio Features Gifted Pianist David Hazeltine!
Today a major pianist in the New York and Japan scenes, David Hazeltine has been playing gigs since he was thirteen. He did not seriously consider going into music until right before college. Once he entered into the jazz world he was encouraged by Chet Baker who told him to go to New York. He has played and recorded with Jon Hendricks, Louis Hayes, and One for All. Although he is a pianist he feels more influenced by saxophonists, particularly Charlie Parker.
Hazeltine, in the tradition of Parker, works within and across the constrains of bebop, and arcs toward the aesthetic of consonance rather than dissonance: reaching toward beauty in harmony, melody, rhythm and never straying too deeply from his roots. He is particularly influenced by Parker, Rollins, Bud Powell and early Miles Davis. Although seemingly hard-line about the tradition, Hazeltine has done an impressive amount of innovation and is a gifted arranger and composer.
Hazeltine is joined on this release by George Mraz on bass and Billy Drummond on drums.
"Beautifully recorded..." -Ken Dryden, allmusic.com
Features:
• Super Audio CD
• SACD Stereo SACD Layer
• This Single-Layer SACD can only be played on a Super Audio CD Player! It will NOT play on conventional CD Players!
• Made in Japan
Musicians:
David Hazeltine, piano
George Mraz, bass
Billy Drummond, drums
Selections:
1. Beautiful Love
2. Sweet & Lovely
3. Alice In Wonderland
4. Autumn Leaves
5. When You Wish Upon A Star
6. For Bill
7. How Deep Is The Ocean
8. Danny Boy
9. Tenderly
Excellent Jazz Trio Features Gifted Pianist David Hazeltine!
Today a major pianist in the New York and Japan scenes, David Hazeltine has been playing gigs since he was thirteen. He did not seriously consider going into music until right before college. Once he entered into the jazz world he was encouraged by Chet Baker who told him to go to New York. He has played and recorded with Jon Hendricks, Louis Hayes, and One for All. Although he is a pianist he feels more influenced by saxophonists, particularly Charlie Parker.
Hazeltine, in the tradition of Parker, works within and across the constrains of bebop, and arcs toward the aesthetic of consonance rather than dissonance: reaching toward beauty in harmony, melody, rhythm and never straying too deeply from his roots. He is particularly influenced by Parker, Rollins, Bud Powell and early Miles Davis. Although seemingly hard-line about the tradition, Hazeltine has done an impressive amount of innovation and is a gifted arranger and composer.
Hazeltine is joined on this release by George Mraz on bass and Billy Drummond on drums.
"Beautifully recorded..." -Ken Dryden, allmusic.com
Features:
• Super Audio CD
• SACD Stereo SACD Layer
• This Single-Layer SACD can only be played on a Super Audio CD Player! It will NOT play on conventional CD Players!
• Made in Japan
Musicians:
David Hazeltine, piano
George Mraz, bass
Billy Drummond, drums
Selections:
1. Beautiful Love
2. Sweet & Lovely
3. Alice In Wonderland
4. Autumn Leaves
5. When You Wish Upon A Star
6. For Bill
7. How Deep Is The Ocean
8. Danny Boy
9. Tenderly
