Piano Works 2016-2026 [LP]

John Carroll Kirby - Piano Works 2016-2026 [LP]

Piano Works 2016-2026 collects fourteen impromptu pieces by composer and producer John Carroll Kirby, written whenever he had the opportunity to sit at a piano while on the road. These mostly solo works for piano were recorded in Los Angeles, Rome, Tokyo, Wollongong (Australia), New Zealand and London. Piano Works marks a departure from the full-band sound of recent albums Blowout and Septet, which Kirby has spent the past years performing live around the world. The album is a study in piano repertoire: Baroque, Romantic, Impressionist, jazz, minimalist, atonal, and more. Most of the pieces have an impromptu feel – improvised, or meant to sound improvised, or at least written in one sitting. The collected pieces on Piano Works are a document of Kirby’s life as a piano player and touring musician, and “serve as the melodic / harmonic lexicon for what would inform all my other compositions of the past ten years.” A1. MS4 A2. First Position 1 A3. First Position 2 A4. Bendable Pine A5. Melody A6. Cecilia 14 A7. Piano #4 A8. Little Mouse B1. Impromptu B2. Empty Room B3. Suntory B4. Valentino B5. Rain Walking