Modern jazzy solo piano stuff

[pies]

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[Petter]

[weissenberg2]

Well I am sure that most people on here with an IQ above 80 can enjoy most modern stuff. Anway, you should take a look at some Kapustin and Alexis Weissenberg has a sonata etat et jazz.

[thalbergmad]

Well I am sure that most people on here with an IQ above 80 can enjoy most modern stuff.

Oh dear, that explains a lot

[pies]

Exactly what I had in mind!  Well, almost exactly.  I wasn't expecting vocalizations.
I love this.  Thanks.

[indutrial]

Here's some Borah Bergman for your enjoyment. This is a solo track taken from his improv disc with reeds player, Frode Gjerstad, Rivers in Time.

[indutrial]

Here's a rather long improv by Chicago pianist Jim Baker, who's played in lots of groups with other well-known Midwestern players like Ken Vandermark and Dave Rempis.

[indutrial]

Here's some Marilyn Crispell, playing a duo version of Tim Berne's 'Bass Voodoo' with Berne on alto sax. Not solo, but f**k it, the intro improv is pretty killer. None of my Crispell solo discs are ripped.

[indutrial]

Here's a small solo performance by Russ Lossing, from the Change of Time record he put out with John Hebert (bass) and Adam Kolker (sax).

I'll see what else I can sample tomorrow. Most of my best improv-piano stuff is non-solo performances. Most of these pianists prefer trio gigs.

[pies]

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[indutrial]

If you like any of these artists, I would also check out:

Sten Sandell - https://www.efi.group.shef.ac.uk/msandell.html

Alex van Schlippenbach - https://www.efi.group.shef.ac.uk/mschlipp.html

Both of those bios are from a very good resource on European free improvisers - https://www.efi.group.shef.ac.uk/

Keith Tippett is another great pianist who works on a lot of interesting projects, in addition to numerous free improv performances. I have a few discs where him and pianist Howard Riley improvise for almost an hour uninterrupted.

Georg Graewe is a German?/Swiss? pianist who often plays wholly-improvised records with percussionist Gerry Hemingway and cellist Ernst Rejsinger to great effect. They did a record called 'Sonic Fiction' that stands out as one of my favorites in the genre.

There are doubtlessly countless others, not to mention hundreds of awesome non-pianists who strengthen the genre.