MARC COPLAND TRIO

"Spartacus and other Love Songs"

With over thirteen critically acclaimed releases since the year 2000, pianist Marc Copland is the most prolific pianist of the new millenium – a recognized innovator, perhaps today’s foremost proponent of the lyrical school of jazz piano.

Copland’s newest disc "Spartacus and other love songs" for the Munich based label Pirouet records is the pianist’s eagerly-awaited return to the classic trio format, in which he played so beautifully on "Haunted Heart and Other Ballads". Along with bassist Drew Gress and drummer Jochen Rueckert, Copland brings an unmatched sensibility to jazz: unique harmonies and colors, a sensitive touch, and a poetic heart are the cornerstones of his style.
cd release tour - fall 2005 "Spartacus and other love songs"

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Spartacus and other love songs

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MARC COPLAND/GARY PEACOCK

Marc Copland and Gary Peacock--”What It Says”
The masterpiece “What it Says” (Sketch Records), by these two master musicians of modern jazz, displays a duo at the highest level that thrills from start to finish. Their universe is filled with echoes, reverberating crystals, undulating movements; they attain rare heights of musicality with their harmonic language, exceptional intelligence, and supreme level of play. The magic between the two, called “a miracle,” has no equal.
 
Marc Copland is revered by his peers, and critics call him the “quiet giant” of jazz. His playing is not only highly sophisticated and harmonically daring but, at the same time, beautiful and accessible. His performances are marked by their sophistication, control, and most of all, by a profound and editative touch. A gifted composer, he’s also attracted by the emotional challenges of jazz standards--particularly ballads, which continue to intrigue him. He produces concerts of powerful emotion and sublime elegance.

Copland emerged in the nineties with well-received recordings for the Savoy label featuring all-star lineups including John Abercrombie, the late Bob Berg, Michael Brecker, Randy Brecker, Drew Gress, Billy Hart, Joe Lovano, Bill Stewart, and Peacock. Since 2000, he has found a much broader audience by releasing three to four critically acclaimed cds a year for different European labels. These include the duo with Peacock; duos with saxophonists Greg Osby and David Liebman; trio with Drew Gress and Jochen Rueckert; trio with John Abercrombie and Ken Wheeler; and quartets with John Abercrombie and Michael Brecker.

Gary Peacock, brilliant virtuoso of the jazz bass, has been performing for some six decades in the most rarefied atmospheres. He arrived on the scene in the sixties with a burst of creativity, one of the decisive innovators of bass playing. He started in the bands of Ornette Coleman, Don Ellis and Jimmy Giuffre at the end of the fifties, before moving to New York in 1962. There, he joined musicians like Paul Bley and Roland Kirk, later becoming bassist in the legendary Bill Evans trio with Paul Motian. While continuing with Evans, he then joined the celebrated Miles Davis quintet.

In the middle of the seventies Peacock began his collaboration with the ECM label and with the “standards” trio of Peacock, Keith Jarrett and Jack DeJohnette. He also recorded with Jan Garbarek and Ralph Towner, and later reunited with Paul Bley. During the last three decades, Gary Peacock has played at nearly every important jazz festival worldwide.

Pianist MARC COPLAND first came to public attention with his trio with Gary Peacock and Billy Hart, later with his All-Star quintet with Randy Brecker, Bob Berg, and Dennis Chambers, and still later with his quartet with guitarist John Abercrombie

"…His harmonic sophistication, his touch, and control of dynamics with the foot pedal have all become-well-the stuff of legend. There are actually stories of young piano players who go to a Copland gig and then sit right near the stage to stare at his feet, to observe the nuance of how he works the damper pedal of the piano." (AllAboutJazz.com)