Alex Koo
Etudes For Piano

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De Werf
Release date: 10/Mar/2023

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Sales Rank:	#10328 in Other Swing #48066 in Jazz

Style:	Other Swing

Product No.:	2100797265

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1. ALL ARMS ON DECK!
2. COCONUTS
3. LUNA UMI
4. SONAR
5. VARIATIONS ON THE EASIEST SONG IN THE WORLD
6. FIVE IN FIS
7. SATIESFIED
8. DBREAM

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Belgian-Japanese piano wizard Alex Koo seemed destined for a career as a classical concert pianist, but in his teens, he became completely enamored with jazz. Driven by his passion, he moved to New York, where he studied and taught at the renowned NYU Steinhardt. There he came into contact with jazz greats Mark Turner and Ralph Alessi, with whom he released the album "Applebueseagreen" in 2019, which was promptly included in the prestigious list of "Best Albums of 2019" by the legendary Downbeat Jazz Magazine with the words "Stunningly original". Domestically, too, one blazing review upon another: "Belgium is too small for pianist Alex Koo" or "We are stunned ", we read in national newspapers De Tijd and Le Soir. With his brand new Etudes for Piano, composed for and commissioned by BoZar Brussels, he shows how his passion for both worlds - jazz and classical - merge perfectly. Adventurism and virtuosity go hand in hand with melancholy and elbow work (literally, for those who really know Koo knows). His music sounds like a marriage between Debussy, Chopin, Reich, Rachmaninov on the one hand and Keith Jarrett, Craig Taborn, Brian Eno and Philip Glass on the other. Alex Koo is a conjuring natural born storyteller on piano. -

Recorded at Blue Keys Studios, Belgium, April 2022

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209

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