Richie Beirach - Live At Birdland New York (CD)

Release Date: 04/28/17With “Live at Birdland New York” the pianist-composer is celebrating his 70th birthday, and demonstrates he’s still at the top of his game.With the release of “Live at Birdland New York” the pianist-composer is celebrating his 70th birthday, and demonstrates he’s still at the top of his game alongside his congenial partner of two decades, the New York based violinist Gregor Huebner. It’s through the development of their own uniquely imaginative version of ‘third stream’, the absorption of elements of the European ‘classical’ music tradition into New York’s postbop idioms that Beirach and Huebner found so much common ground. Bweirach: “The mix of the music on the CD is very typical for us, you find classical pieces, our own compositions, a typical jazz standard and a composition by John Coltrane [“Transition”]. Each piece brings something totally new but everything is connected through improvisation.” Of his originals, one of Beirach’s m