VA — The Art Of The Piano: Trio, Quartet, Quintet And Beyond (2020)

Mp3 320 kbps / FLAC (tracks,cue,log,scans) | 13h | Jazz | 1.7 / 3.4 GB

CD 1: Bill Evans: Waltz For Debby / Oscar Peterson: Affinity

CD 2: Duke Ellington: The Duke Plays Ellington / Errol Garner: Contrasts

CD 3: Bud Powell: Blues In The Closet / Kenny Drew Trio

CD 4: Ramsey Lewis: And His Gentleman Of Jazz / The Piano Style Of Nat King Cole

CD 5: Red Garland: All Kinds Of Weather / Ahmad Jamal: Happy Moods

CD 6: Tommy Flanagan: Overseas / Herbie Hancock: Takin Off

CD 7: A. Tatum / L. Hampton / B. Rich / Hoace Silver: Horas-Scope

CD 8: Lennie Tristano / Jutta Hipp: New Faces, New Sounds

CD9: Dave Brubeck Trio / Elmo Hope: Meditations

CD10: Thelionious Monk: Genius Of Modern Music Vol. 1 / Cecil Taylor: Jazz Advance

20 of the best pianists in the jazz world with 20 of their most influential albums

— The spectrum ranges from Bill Evans or Duke Ellington to Ramsey Lewis or Ahmad Jamal to Red Garland or Tommy Flanagan, Art Tatum, Bud Powell, Horace Silver, the debut albums of Herbie Hancock and Cecil Taylor or the first recordings of of Thelonious Monk

Melody, harmony and rhythm — \»The Art of the Piano\» combines these three elementary Qualities of music as wonderfully as perfectly. In the hands of a master, the music the music that these masters produce on the piano can and will perform a real magic trick the transcendence of and space. The different approaches of some of the best and most important pianists in jazz on the twenty original albums documented in this 10-CD box set are proof of this phenomenon — and of the lessness of jazz lessness of jazz