Dan Papirany

Take Five With Dan Papirany

by Dan Papirany
February 19, 2015

Meet Dan Papirany: I was born in Israel and moved to New Zealand when I was 21. I studied drums for two years and then changed to a piano major. I graduated with a bachelor in jazz performance in 1999 and continued studying to become a high school teacher. In 2011 I moved to QLD, Australia. I've released seven albums to date; they are all available at CD Baby. Instrument(s): I play jazz piano and drums. ...

Jazz Musician of the Day: Dan Papirany

Source: Michael Ricci
March 7, 2023

All About Jazz is celebrating Dan Papirany's birthday today!

Dan Papirany is a former jazz pianist and a jazz bassist based in Bundaberg, Austalia. As a pianist Dan took his group to perform two shows at Europe's prestige festival EUROPAfest 2016 and he also performed two solos in EUROPAfest 2018 gala concerts. Dan was on a panel of Judges in the 2017- 2019 international jazz competition in Romania. Dan first album was nominated for Jazz Album of the Year at ...
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Dan Papirany's New Album 'I Trio' Is A Unique Individual Project

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July 4, 2022

Multi-instrumentalist Dan Papirany has released I Trio, an album of mostly original compositions with the exception of “Groove Evolution” by Brett Loretz who also plays trumpet on the track. I Trio has a mixture of compositional influences. Two compositions were inspired by Steve Gadd drumbeats. In the composition “Fifty Ways To Leave Your Blubber” Papirany utilises Gadd’s “Fifty Ways” drum beat which was originally featured on a Paul Simon song. The “Mozambique” drumbeat is also associated with Gadd, and it ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Dan Papirany

Source: Michael Ricci
March 7, 2022

All About Jazz is celebrating Dan Papirany's birthday today!

Dan Papirany is an adventurous Jazz pianist, composer who understands and follows the eloquent philosophy that is to play melodic phrases and rich harmonies. While studying jazz piano, Dan formed his first trio and played in local venues. While taking post graduate courses at Victoria University in Wellington New Zealand, Dan was offered the position of Music HOD at a school in Auckland teaching music curriculum based on Jazz. Dan formed ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Dan Papirany

Source: Michael Ricci
March 7, 2021

All About Jazz is celebrating Dan Papirany's birthday today!

Dan Papirany is an adventurous Jazz pianist, composer who understands and follows the eloquent philosophy that is to play melodic phrases and rich harmonies. While studying jazz piano, Dan formed his first trio and played in local venues. While taking post graduate courses at Victoria University in Wellington New Zealand, Dan was offered the position of Music HOD at a school in Auckland teaching music curriculum based on Jazz. Dan formed ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Dan Papirany

Source: Michael Ricci
March 7, 2020

All About Jazz is celebrating Dan Papirany's birthday today!

Dan Papirany is an adventurous Jazz pianist, composer who understands and follows the eloquent philosophy that is to play melodic phrases and rich harmonies. While studying jazz piano, Dan formed his first trio and played in local venues. While taking post graduate courses at Victoria University in Wellington New Zealand, Dan was offered the position of Music HOD at a school in Auckland teaching music curriculum based on Jazz. Dan formed ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Dan Papirany

Source: Michael Ricci
March 7, 2019

All About Jazz is celebrating Dan Papirany's birthday today!

Dan Papirany is an adventurous Jazz pianist, composer who understands and follows the eloquent philosophy that is to play melodic phrases and rich harmonies. While studying jazz piano, Dan formed his first trio and played in local venues. While taking post graduate courses at Victoria University in Wellington New Zealand, Dan was offered the position of Music HOD at a school in Auckland teaching music curriculum based on Jazz... Read more. ...
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Pianist Dan Papirany Releases New Trio Album

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December 28, 2018

Pianist Dan Papirany new trio album entitled 2018 was recorded in BARS studio in Bundaberg, Australia. It features Papirany on piano Marsh Robinson on bass and Steve Wright on drums. The trio performs standards and Papirany's original tunes. The album was recorded over three separate sessions on the 17th of November 2018 and December 16th and 17th and is now available via digital downloads through cdbaby.com. Dan's approach on this occasion is a straight ahead trio playing, featuring solos by ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Dan Papirany

Source: Michael Ricci
March 7, 2018

All About Jazz is celebrating Dan Papirany's birthday today!

Dan Papirany is an adventurous Jazz pianist, composer who understands and follows the eloquent philosophy that is to play melodic phrases and rich harmonies.     Originally starting out as a drummer at seventeen years of age, he discovered the music of Bill Evans and Keith Jarrett\'s piano playing which led him to switch instruments to the piano. He remembers a quote from drummer Peter Erskine... Read more.

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Pianist Dan Papirany Releases New Solo Album

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June 3, 2017

Pianist Dan Papirany's new album entitled Solo was recorded in Tel Aviv, Israel. It features Papirany on piano playing standards and original tunes. The album was recorded over three separate sessions in April and May 2017 and is now available via digital downloads through cdbaby.com. Dan's approach on this occasion is the usage of melodic lines of improvisation while experimenting with several harmonic ideas. Some of the songs which can be found on the album are a well known standards ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Dan Papirany

Source: Michael Ricci
March 7, 2017

All About Jazz is celebrating Dan Papirany's birthday today!

Dan Papirany is an adventurous Jazz pianist, composer who understands and follows the eloquent philosophy that is to play melodic phrases and rich harmonies. Originally starting out as a drummer at seventeen years of age, he discovered the music of Bill Evans and Keith Jarrett\'s piano playing which led him to switch instruments to the piano. He remembers a quote from drummer Peter Erskine... Read more.

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