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Glenn Zaleski
Glenn has also released two popular albums with the collective Stranahan/Zaleski/Rosato: Limitless (Capri 2013), and Anticipation (Capri 2011), as well as a duo record with his brother, saxophonist Mark Zaleski. (Duet Suite, 2010)
In 2011, Glenn was a semi-finalist in the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Piano Competition, as well as a finalist for the 2011 APA Cole Porter Fellowship in Jazz. He attended the Brubeck Institute Fellowship program in Stockton, CA from 2005-2007, and then finished his undergraduate studies at The New School in 2009. From 2009-2011, while working towards his graduate degree at NYU, Glenn was also on NYU faculty, teaching a variety of classes and private students.
Awards
2007: APA Cole Porter Fellowship - Finalist
2011: APA Cole Porter Fellowship - Finalist
2011: Thelonious Monk Competition - Semi-Finalist
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Alex LoRe & Weirdear: Evening Will Find Itself
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by Maurizio Zerbo
Attraverso questo CD, gli appassionati italiani di jazz potranno conoscere e apprezzare Alex LoRe, uno dei più talentuosi sassofonisti emergenti dell'area newyorkese. Ispirato ai grandi modelli della grande tradizione jazzistica degli anni Sessanta, Evening Will Find Itself propone una musica ben costruita, interpretata col giusto pathos. Armonicamente e ritmicamente complesse, le dieci tracce del CD ed in particolare l'evocativo Face Unseen" attualizzano la sontuosa lezione shorteriana, facendo leva sulle fantasiose doti improvvisative del quartetto. Oltre al ...
read moreMareike Wiening: Reveal
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by Mark Sullivan
Mareike Wiening is a German drummer/composer who began her career in New York, and now divides her time between there and Köln, Germany. On her third album, she continues making music with her New York-based working band, an increasingly rare situation in contemporary jazz. It provides her an opportunity for more compositional experimentation with each release. Time for Priorities" begins abstractly, a duet between drums and guitarist Alex Goodman's spacey electronics, before introducing the swinging theme and the rest of ...
read moreGlenn Zaleski: Summer Song
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by Geno Thackara
Glenn Zaleski's playing style is a little swing, a little more contemplation, and a lot of jny:New York City class. Those key elements are all there in this tricky-flowing turn on a Dave Brubeck classic--not really the tune for a sunny-day barbecue, as one might almost guess from the title, but rather one for winding down after sunset sipping a chilled beverage and watching the fireflies. ...
read moreGabriel Vicéns: The Way We Are Created
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by Mark Sullivan
Puerto Rican jazz guitarist & composer Gabriel Vicéns has been living in New York City since 2016 but, for this album, he chose to explore traditional Puerto Rican music (Bomba and Plenamusic and dance styles born from African slavery and Caribbean influences) blended with his own compositional style. He was also exposed to Cuban Changüí, and began incorporating some stylistic devices from it into his guitar playing. The title tune begins the program with an infectious ostinato pattern ...
read moreMareike Wiening: Future Memories
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by Mark Corroto
It is interesting that in today's creative music world, a jazz drummer cannot just be a jazz drummer. There are so many great drummers that they have to also be composers, band leaders, and sometimes van drivers. A short list includes Tyshawn Sorey, Allison Miller, Ches Smith, and Terri Lyne Carrington. Add to that list Mareike Wiening, the German-born artist with (now) deep New York roots. Her release Metropolis Paradise (Greenleaf Music, 2019) brought her music critical attention and acclaim, ...
read moreRoberto Pianca Sub Rosa: Mono No Aware
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by Friedrich Kunzmann
The Roberto Pianca-led ensemble Sub Rosa's second release is a concentrated exercise in inter-communicative restraint, subtlety and woven odd meters that provokes the mind while consoling the soul. It's a cool affair that profits from the individual talents' accurate performances and inquisitive spirits as much as the leader's proficiently crafted compositions. Where the predecessor, self-titled Sub Rosa (Wide Ear Records, 2013) was a rather rigorously tempered and vigorously executed display of broad technical virtuosity, Mono No Aware scales things back ...
read moreTomoko Omura: Branches Vol. 1
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by Friedrich Kunzmann
Violinists come in many shapes, colors and sizes. In jazz, there are those who bridge the gap between classical music and a more improvised repertoire seamlessly, as seen with pioneers such as American avant-gardist Mark Feldman. There are others who go about their craft with a more rootsy approach to the improvised music traditionas heard with virtuosos like Regina Carter. And then of course there's everything in between, from old guard veterans like Stephane Grappelli (also known as ...
read moreJazz Musician of the Day: Glenn Zaleski
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All About Jazz is celebrating Glenn Zaleski's birthday today!
Glenn Zaleski is one of the most in-demand pianists on the New York City jazz scene. Originally from Boylston, MA, Glenn has made a name for himself playing with the likes of Ravi Coltrane, Lage Lund, and Ari Hoenig. His debut album, My Ideal, was released in March of 2015 on Sunnyside, and has been receiving critical acclaim: Downbeat Magazine named it “sublime”, Jazz Times called it, “an engaging set by ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Glenn Zaleski
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Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Glenn Zaleski's birthday today!
Glenn Zaleski is one of the most in-demand pianists on the New York City jazz scene. Originally from Boylston, MA, Glenn has made a name for himself playing with the likes of Ravi Coltrane, Lage Lund, and Ari Hoenig. His debut album, My Ideal, was released in March of 2015 on Sunnyside, and has been receiving critical acclaim: Downbeat Magazine named it “sublime”, Jazz Times called it, “an engaging set by ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Glenn Zaleski
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Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Glenn Zaleski's birthday today!
Glenn Zaleski is one of the most in-demand pianists on the New York City jazz scene. Originally from Boylston, MA, Glenn has made a name for himself playing with the likes of Ravi Coltrane, Lage Lund, and Ari Hoenig. His debut album, My Ideal, was released in March of 2015 on Sunnyside, and has been receiving critical acclaim: Downbeat Magazine named it “sublime”, Jazz Times called it, “an engaging set by ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Glenn Zaleski
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Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Glenn Zaleski's birthday today!
Glenn Zaleski is one of the most in-demand pianists on the New York City jazz scene. Originally from Boylston, MA, Glenn has made a name for himself playing with the likes of Ravi Coltrane, Lage Lund, and Ari Hoenig. His debut album, My Ideal, was released in March of 2015 on Sunnyside, and has been receiving critical acclaim: Downbeat Magazine named it “sublime”, Jazz Times called it, “an engaging set by ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Glenn Zaleski
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Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Glenn Zaleski's birthday today!
Glenn Zaleski is one of the most in-demand pianists on the New York City jazz scene. Originally from Boylston, MA, Glenn has made a name for himself playing with the likes of Ravi Coltrane, Lage Lund, and Ari Hoenig. His debut album, My Ideal, was released in March of 2015 on Sunnyside, and has been receiving critical acclaim: Downbeat Magazine named it “sublime”, Jazz Times called it, “an engaging set by ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Glenn Zaleski
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Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Glenn Zaleski's birthday today!
Glenn Zaleski is one of the most in-demand pianists on the New York City jazz scene. Originally from Boylston, MA, Glenn has made a name for himself playing with the likes of Ravi Coltrane, Lage Lund, and Ari Hoenig. His debut album, My Ideal, was released in March of 2015 on Sunnyside, and has been receiving critical acclaim: Downbeat Magazine named it “sublime”, Jazz Times called it, “an engaging set by ...
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Mark and Glenn Zaleski - Duet Suite (2011)
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Something Else!
By Mark Saleski One of the markers of high-level instrumental interplay is the perception of intimacy. We see this again & again in review languagethat the musicians seemed as though they were of one mind," that their communication was telepathic." There are plenty of recorded examples that come to mind: Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock's An Evening With..., Emphasis, Stuttgart by the Jimmy Giuffre 3 (withPaul Bley and Steve Swallow), and especially the impromptu live Max & Dizzy: Paris 1989, ...
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"Glenn Zaleski has a sound." —NPR.org
"A perfect balance of excitement and coherence..." —Jazz Times
"His playing is something to behold..." —Jazz Journal
"...blessedly warm and lyrical..." —Ottawa Citizen
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Blue Rondo à la Turk
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We're More Than the Sum of Our Influences
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The Guru
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... the Alternative
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You'll Never Know ...
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Venus
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The Weatherman
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(Take the) Fork in the Road
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A Duke
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... Patience
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Patience...
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Brutus, the Contemporary
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... Perspective
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Evolution of ...
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A Sorcerer (is a myth)
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Secret Treetop
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Antiquity
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Table Talk
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Waltz for MD
From: My IdealBy Glenn Zaleski