The Color Green - Color Green - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Elliot Steger, pianist and composer, has extensive jazz and classical training. He began classical training at the age of 4 and studied at the Manhattan School of Music as a teenager. He has studied for the past 20 years with a professor from the Berklee School of Music. He is accompanied by Lello Molinari on acoustic bass and Jon Hazilla on drums who are both on faculty at Berklee as well as the talented Christine Horn on congas and percussion. His style is strongly influenced by the great Bill Evans but distinctive in it's own right. The music on 'One Red Rose' reveals an emphasis on a strong structured melody line along with a refreshing variety of songs ranging from beautiful ballads to songs that swing, to a latin groove with congas. This is his 5th CD and the 2nd one with the same quartet. The group is very together and has wonderfully inspired improvisations by all group members. Steger plays 2 solo piano songs on this CD. The first song on the CD, 'Beyond Forever', was inspired by his wife and is a beautiful ballad. The last song on the the CD is the only nonoriginal standard out of his more than 60 original recorded songs. He plays his own arrangement of 'Over the Rainbow' with both a ballad and swing feel which is both poetic and playful. As with his prior 4 CD's('Joyful Blue', 'Making Time', 'Transition', and 'Images'), he donates all profits to the American Cancer Society, the Alzheimer's Association, and the Multiple Sclerosis Society.

2024 . The Color Green can represent many things. It can symbolize money, of course, but also weed. And envy. It implies newness, the rebirth of spring, but it can also evoke illness and infection. It's an apt name for a band that is defined by it's adaptability, by it's knack for doing many different things all at once. On The Color Green's second full-length-their first as a quartet-they ground their cosmic jams in earthy melodies, drawing from '60s SoCal folk-r0ck, '70s classic rock, '80s underground rock, '90s psychedelic dance-rock, and many other sources. In the two years the band has been touring, it has already shared stages with a range of groups that reflect both the sophistication and the wild malleability of their sound, including Fuzz, Kikagaku Moyo, Circles Around the Sun, and Young Guv. InchWhen we play live, I don't really know what's going to happen,Inch says guitarist Noah Kohll. InchYou really have no idea what you're going to get with this band, which keeps things fresh for us and maybe makes the live experience special.Inch Adds drummer Corey Rose, InchOne thing about this band that I really appreciate is that we can camouflage into any environment or any show. We can play with Hiss Golden Messenger and lean into that funky country vibe, or we can play with the Brian Jonestown Massacre and get evil. We all love a variety of music, so let's not put ourselves in a box.Inch That wild, mercurial quality is reflected on Fool's Parade, a meditation on loss, grief, confusion, frustration, and the clarity to which they all lead. Their songs are vehicles for self-explorations, not just a means of putting their feelings into lyrics and notes but molding them, night after night, into different shapes to get different insights.

Vincent & Mr. Green - Vincent & Mr Green [COMPACT DISCS] date 10/05/2004