{"product_id":"laszlo-gardony-serious-play-solo-piano","title":"Laszlo Gardony: Serious Play (solo Piano) - COMPACT DISCS","description":"\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eSerious Play (solo Piano)\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eArtist: \u003c\/b\u003eLaszlo Gardony\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eLabel: \u003c\/b\u003eSunnyside\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eProduct Type: \u003c\/b\u003eCOMPACT DISCS\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eUPC: \u003c\/b\u003e016728402927\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eGenre: \u003c\/b\u003eJazz\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eRelease Date: \u003c\/b\u003e2017-07-14\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eNumber of Discs: \u003c\/b\u003e1\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \n                                         \u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \n                                         \n                                         Great artists can't help but respond to the world around them, absorbing the tensions, angst and joys vibrating throughout society. At the same time, musicians provide energy for the necessary struggle, washing away the dust of everyday life, as drum legend Art Blakey said, describing jazz's transformative power. This double duty is at the core of pianist Laszlo Gardony's new solo album Serious Play. He created most of the music spontaneously in the studio, with a few soulful reimaginations of beloved standards added, providing a potent reminder that the longtime Berklee College of Music professor is one of jazz's most emotionally trenchant and melodically inventive solo piano practitioners. Serious Play is Gardony 12th album and 9th recording for Sunnyside. Possessing a ravishing touch and a singular style that draws on the post-bop continuum, various strains of folk music and his Central European classical training, he went into the studio with two goals that went hand in hand, says Gardony, who couldn't help but carry with him an acute sense of rising anxiety in the country. One goal was to sit down and improvise for an extended amount of time, revisiting the compositional approach that led to Clarity, his celebrated 2013 solo piano session. \"The other was to organically connect that soul-baring material to soul soothing arrangements of beloved standards.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTracks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1.1 Georgia on My Mind \u003cbr\u003e1.2 Naima \u003cbr\u003e1.3 Serious Play \u003cbr\u003e1.4 Night Light \u003cbr\u003e1.5 Forward Motion \u003cbr\u003e1.6 Watchful Through the Night \u003cbr\u003e1.7 Folk at Heart \u003cbr\u003e1.8 Truth to Power \u003cbr\u003e1.9 Reverberations \u003cbr\u003e1.10 Over the Rainbow\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAudio Sample:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n                                           \u003ci\u003eAll soundclips are provided by Tidal and are for illustrative purposes only. For some releases, the tracks listed may not accurately represent the tracks on the physical release.\u003c\/i\u003e\n                                           \u003cbr\u003e\n                                           \u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/embed.tidal.com\/albums\/76151202\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width:100%;height:700px\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e","brand":"Laszlo Gardony","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32466682118215,"sku":"33047737","price":16.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2976\/0132\/files\/3651550.jpg?v=1747411720","url":"https:\/\/tower.com\/products\/laszlo-gardony-serious-play-solo-piano","provider":"Tower Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}