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Titles In Print
Grand Ideas - Vol. 3: FULL MOON MUSIC
Free Improvisations for Solo Piano
"Grand Ideas was years in the making. I did not want to rush it. I can't explain why, call it intuition or whatever. I just felt the music needed ample time to gestate and mature... Then there is the piano on which I recorded the music. My parents bought it when I was 11 and it has inspired me all my life. I truly believe it is inhabibted by living spirits that leap out when I play it." - Armen Donelian
including:
- Preamble
- A Call To The Spirits
- The Witch’s Cauldron
- Nostalgia
- Fractured Dream
- On The Dark Side Of The Moon
- When A Girl Dreams Of Love
- Beer Drinkers’ Anthem
- Springtime In The Rose Garden
- Barren Landscape
- Young Asses At Play
- Blues Montage
- Pilgrimage
- Redemption
Armen Donelian, solo piano
SunnySide Records
348 West 38 Street
New York, NY 10018
(212) 564-4606 fax: (212) 967-2968
E-mail: sunnyside@sunnysiderecords.com
Grand Ideas - Vol. 2: MYSTIC HEIGHTS
Original Compositions for Solo Piano
"On his recent Mystic Heights, he applies
that same balance [as on Wave] between tension and release to a program
of sensitive originals." - Gary Giddins (Village Voice/Voice
Choices, December 4, 2002)
including:
- Ode
- Devotion
- Bare Hearts
- Little Flower
- Amour
- Exiled Dreams
- Mexico
- Spree
Armen Donelian, piano
SunnySide Records
348 West 38 Street
New York, NY 10018
(212) 564-4606 fax: (212) 967-2968
E-mail: sunnyside@sunnysiderecords.com
Grand Ideas - Vol. 1: WAVE
Select Standards for Solo Piano
(SSC-1088D)
"On the pianist's recent album, Wave
(Sunnyside), Armen Donelian has pared down his considerable technique
in favor of a dramatic lyricism that, in pieces as old-hat as "All
of Me" and as unlikely as "Our Day Will Come" and a couple
of Beatles ballads, he sustains with controlled and expressive poetry."
- Village Voice (Giddins)
including:
- I Will
- All of Me
- Solitude
- The Song Is You
- I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face
- Our Day Will Come
- Wave
- Here, There and Everywhere
Armen Donelian, piano
Recorded August, 1998 & December, 1999, West Orange, NJ.
SunnySide Records
348 West 38 Street
New York, NY 10018
(212) 564-4606 fax: (212) 967-2968
E-mail: sunnyside@sunnysiderecords.com
Quartet Language (Playscape Recordings PSR#J050292)
"An acrid alchemy festers among these players...bravely adventurous and breathlessly delicate." - All About Jazz/New York (Celeste Sunderland)
including:
- Jabberwackey
- The Germ
- Mexico
- Loose as a Goose
- Brood Mood
Thomas Chapin, alto saxophone
Calvin Hill, bass
Jeff Williams, drums
Armen Donelian, pianist and composer
Recorded live at Visiones, NYC May, 2002
Playscape Recordings
(413) 567-7967
One of the great unsung piano trio recordings
of the 80's...Donelian's strongest release to date...Strongly recommended.
- Cadence
Worth listening to from the first note to the last. - Klassekampen (Norway)
He plays with such panache. - Option
- Song With No Name (Donelian, Iversen, Kleive)
- Conception (Shearing)
- Broken Carousel (Donelian)
- Seasons' Change (Donelian)
- In Your Own Sweet Way (Brubeck)
- Secrets (Donelian)
- Cockeyed Blues (Donelian)
- Angel Eyes (Dennis/Brent)
- Metropolitan Madness (Donelian)
Armen Donelian, piano
Carl-Morten Iversen, bass
Audun Kleive, drums
Recorded July 7, 1987 in Oslo, Norway.
Odin Records
Tollbugata 28
N-0157 Oslo, Norway
(47) 22-41-20-04 fax: 22-41-20-04
E-mail: nojf@notam.uio.no
Warmth
and cohesion... Downright haunting. <3-1/2 Stars> - Downbeat
Irreducible in the game of influences. <Pick of the Month> - Monde de la Musique (France)
Provocative modernist... Galvanizing abstractions buoyed by swirling, rhythmic undercurrents. - Lawrence Journal-World
Important work. - Cadence
- To Waltz Or Not To... (Findikoglu)
- Jungle Groove (Donelian)
- The Wayfarer (Donelian)
- Chelsea Bridge (Strayhorn)
- Stargazer (Donelian)
- The Scattered Brotherhood (Donelian)
- In Between (Donelian)
- Celebration (Donelian)
Armen Donelian, piano
Dick Oatts, tenor & soprano saxophones
Barry Danielian, trumpet & flügelhorn
Anthony Cox, bass
Bill Stewart, drums
Arto Tunçboyaciyan, percussion & vocal
Recorded January 4 & 5, 1990 in New York City.
SunnySide Records
348 West 38 Street
New York, NY 10018
(212) 564-4606 fax: (212) 967-2968
E-mail: sunnyside@sunnysiderecords.com
Epic
musicality... <#3 Jazz Album of 1988> - Jazz Hot Critics' Poll
(France)
He has clearly come of age as a composer, player and leader. - Cadence
Deserves wider recognition. - Raleigh News and Observer
- Andorinha (Jobim)
- Seasons' Change (Donelian)
- Resurrection (Donelian)
- Broken Carousel (Donelian)
- Dungeons and Dragons (Donelian)
- Secrets (Donelian)
- Astral Dancer (Donelian)
- New Blues (Donelian)
- Parting (Donelian)
Armen Donelian, piano
Dick Oatts, tenor & soprano saxophones
Barry Danielian, trumpet & flügelhorn
Anthony Cox, bass
Bill Stewart, drums
Arto Tunçboyaciyan, percussion
Recorded February 4 & 5, 1988 in New York City.
SunnySide Records
348 West 38 Street
New York, NY 10018
(212) 564-4606 fax: (212) 967-2968
E-mail: sunnyside@sunnysiderecords.com
A Reverie: Solo Piano (SSC 1019D)
A
masterpiece... an open door to evolutionary jazz. - Swing Jazz Journal
Sure touch, good ideas and a sense of humor. - Keyboard
- Metropolitan Madness (Donelian)
- Nexus (Donelian)
- Kjellaug (Donelian)
- Harem Girl (Donelian)
- Invocation (Donelian)
- Contours Suite (Donelian)
- A Reverie (Evans)
- Stargazer (Donelian)
- I Dream Too Much (Kern)
- Morning Flower (Donelian)
- Hymn (Donelian)
Armen Donelian, solo piano
Recorded October 13 and November 3, 1984 in New York City.
SunnySide Records
348 West 38 Street
New York, NY 10018
(212) 564-4606 fax: (212) 967-2968
E-mail: sunnyside@sunnysiderecords.com