Simon
Nabatov Solo
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Simon
Nabatov at work...
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Simon
Nabatov has been giving solo concerts since 1983. He has
performed his solo programs in U.S.A., Canada, Ireland,
Germany, France, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Belgium and
Holland. It's the environment of a solo performance that
allows him to combine most fluidly his classical background
and new music influences with the jazz and improvised music
sensibilities.
Nabatov
has released 5 solo cd's. The first
one,
"
Locomotion"
has
been enthusiastically received by critics and
listeners:
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"Cadence",
October 1992
"While
previous Nabatov recordings have impressed me,
nothing has been as satisfying as this disc. With
ideas galore and enough tools to get the job done,
Simon Nabatov is a pianist of prodigious powers.
"Loco Motion" is a fine effort by this original and
inventive keyboardist. Nabatov blends stride, bop
and free styles as if the improvising piano
tradition were merely one long stream of symbiotic
chain-links, which of course it is. Fortunately,
the recording and the instrument were equal to the
musicianship on this session. Is it too much to ask
that the compositions be winners as well? No, it's
not and they are.The result is an outstanding
release.
Carl
Baugher
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"Dancing
On The Edge" has
been recorded on the world largest upright piano, designed
by the German piano maker David Klavins.
"Shall
We Dance?" presents
a fresh take on the challenge of improvising on the themes
of classical music; pieces of Bach, Chopin, Brahms and
Prokofiev serve as a departure point for spontaneous, yet
compositionally thought - out musical
explorations.
The
next solo CD,
"Perpetuum Immobile",
released on Leo
Records
,
is a performance of free improvised pieces, caught live at
LOFT, Cologne.
And
the most recent one, "Around
Brazil" on
ACT
Music,
is a set of interpretations of the great Brazilian classics
- from Ernesto Nazareth and Ary Barroso to Gilberto Gil,
Caetano Veloso and Antonio Carlos Jobim.
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"Locomotion"
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"Dancing
on the edge"
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"Shall
we Dance?"
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"Perpetuum
Immobile"
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"
Around Brazil "
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Several
new solo projects are recorded and will be released in the
near future: music of Th. Monk and H. Nichols; original
compositions and more...
Stay
tuned!
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