Grady Harp
Pianist/composer/conductor Adam Glasser takes a bold and exciting step to serve up great classical music by Igor Stravinsky and Robert Schumann to a perhaps new audience – jazz lovers. Glaser enjoys a busy career as an orchestra conductor and music director of such ensembles as the Julliard Pre-College Orchestras as well as a composer whose works have been performed by 30 orchestras throughout the US and Canada. He is equally at home with pop, jazz, and cotemporary music,
The trio – Adam Glaser – piano, Pete Coco – bass, and Chris Smith – drums.
The multifaceted works on this recording are If You Don’t Mind, November, I Got a Name, Day Trip to Cologne (inspired by Schumann’s Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, Op. 97, Rhenish), True to You, Before the Dawn, Sacrificial Rhumba (inspired by the “Sacrificial Dance” from Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring), Lullaby for a Little Boy, and My Romance.
This is a ‘must hear’ recording – ingenious and brilliantly executed. Very highly recommended. Grady Harp, June 20
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