Track Listings (12) - Disc #1| All Artists: Joanne Brackeen Title: Popsicle Illusion Members Wishing: 1 Total Copies: 0 Label: Arkadia Jazz Original Release Date: 7/18/2000 Release Date: 7/18/2000 Genres: Jazz, New Age, Pop Styles: Modern Postbebop, Bebop, Instrumental Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 602267037227 |
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 | Joanne Brackeen Popsicle Illusion Genres: Jazz, New Age, Pop
Daring, intense and full of surprises, Joanne Brackeen's CD, Popsicle Illusion (also available as a MP3 download), sets a new standard with this remarkable solo piano recording of original compositions and classics, creati... more » |
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Product Description Daring, intense and full of surprises, Joanne Brackeen's CD, Popsicle Illusion (also available as a MP3 download), sets a new standard with this remarkable solo piano recording of original compositions and classics, creating something fresh with every note that emanates from her piano. Brackeen has been serious about Jazz piano since her late teens, when she became part of the LA jazz scene. She worked with Teddy Edwards, Dexter Gordon, Harold Land and Charles Lloyd before moving to New York. After arriving in the Jazz Mecca, she became the first women to fill the distinguished piano chair with Art Blakey s Jazz Messengers. Before she put together her own group, she also worked with Stan Getz, Freddie Hubbard, and Joe Henderson. Joanne Brackeen is one of jazz s most prized possessions: a virtuoso pianist and master composer who epitomizes the history and evolution of Jazz from traditional to free, and everything in between; all with a contemporary edge. Arkadia Jazz is pleased to present Popsicle Illusion, Joanne Brackeen's tour-de-force solo piano recording. Similarly Requested CDs
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CD ReviewsKeyboard Monster Jonathan Schwartz | Marina del Rey CA | 09/06/2000 (5 out of 5 stars) "I used to think Joanne Brakeen was the musical inheritor of Bill Evans, which would be enough of an accomplishment, right? Well, its gone much further than that. Listen carefully to this CD and you will hear traces of all the great players --a little Art Tatum, a few bars of what I would swear was James P. Johnson, some Monk, here a little Red Garland, there a trace of Bud Powell (more than a trace, actually), and none of her playing is derivitive - it's all taken further than where it started. And, in addition to a strong sense of time, theres all the melody you might want. This stuff is lyric, a big relief from the very hard bop pianists (know who I mean?) who arn't having fun unless the music is jarring." Joanne's Got It All Bill Wood | Vashon Island, WA | 12/20/2007 (5 out of 5 stars) "It takes a high-calibre musician to make a solo piano album and keep it consistently arresting, amusing, exciting and challenging. But, then, Joanne Brackeen is perhaps the finest living jazz pianist of her generation. There is nothing she can't do, and, apparently, nothing she can't imagine. In her familiarity with the whole spectrum of jazz piano history she reminds a bit of Jaki Byard, but she is even more imaginative, more daring and more entertaining than that extraordinarily gifted player. She is indeed a jazz treasure of almost immeasurable worth. The little interview on the last track is a welcome touch too. Joanne is just as cool as you thought she would be."
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