Winter is coming…And to get you prepared, here is a haunting, wonderful stream-of-consciousness solo piano work by the virtuoso jazz/classical pianist, Tobin Mueller. “River Ice” is the first movement from his “New England Suite”, a six movement jazz/classical suite inspired by Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major. But the piece shows stronger influences from contemporary pianists like Kieth Jarrett, Brad Mehldau, Fred Hersch.
The video employs a single shot of an actual ice flow, illustrating the gentle progression of inventive cords, restless and purposeful like New England itself. The rhythms also harken back to New England’s American Indian roots, in a stylized way. The shifting meters are like patches of river ice, conforming to the shoreline, then breaking off into the current, melting, changing shape. The movement is titled “Winter” capturing the peace and stillness of the season without the chill. For more information on the album, see www.tobinmueller.com/flow/
“Flow” was among Album of the Year (2015) winners for FanFare Magazine and Mainly Piano.
“Tobin Mueller proves his originality, his inquisitiveness as a musician and a thinker, and his fluid, full throttle energy as a pianist. One continually has the sense that the piano is Mueller’s alter ego, and when he sits down to play, to arrange or improvise, he is engaging in an exciting dialogue of discovery with his inner self.”
– Carla Süllwold, Fanfare Magazine
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