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Titles In PrintGrand Ideas - Vol. 3: FULL MOON MUSIC "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:
Armen Donelian, solo piano SunnySide Records E-mail: sunnyside@sunnysiderecords.com Grand Ideas - Vol. 2: MYSTIC HEIGHTS "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:
Armen Donelian, piano SunnySide Records E-mail: sunnyside@sunnysiderecords.com Grand Ideas - Vol. 1: WAVE "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:
Armen Donelian, piano Recorded August, 1998 & December, 1999, West Orange, NJ. SunnySide Records 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:
Thomas Chapin, alto saxophone Recorded live at Visiones, NYC May, 2002 Playscape Recordings 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
Armen Donelian, piano Odin Records 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
Armen Donelian, piano Recorded January 4 & 5, 1990 in New York City. SunnySide Records 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
Armen Donelian, piano Recorded February 4 & 5, 1988 in New York City. SunnySide Records 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
Armen Donelian, solo piano Recorded October 13 and November 3, 1984 in New York City. SunnySide Records E-mail: sunnyside@sunnysiderecords.com |