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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


Trio '87 (NJ 4024-2)

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


The Wayfarer (SSC 1049D)

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


Secrets (SSC 1031D)

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


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