Browse by Artist: FLOYD, J.B.

Artist:	FLOYD, J.B.
Title:	In Crossing The Busy Street
Label:	MUTABLEMUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	MUTABLE 17535

"This new recording of music by J.B. Floyd highlights the three main strands of his career: pianist, composer, improvisor. He composed In Crossing the Busy Street for baritone Thomas Buckner (a frequent collaborator of his) and piano, using a poem by Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore. The musical material from this twenty-two minute song cycle then became the basis for further exploration as material for improvisations. Floyd then worked with drummer George Marsh (another long-time collaborator) on what became Improvisations on In Crossing the Busy Street. J.B. Floyd's career as pianist, composer, and improviser has included classical recitals and solos with orchestra, new music solos and group collaborations, jazz improvisations, and multi-media presentations."

Artist:	FLOYD, J.B.
Title:	Another Time And Place
Label:	MUTABLEMUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	MUTABLE 17546

Subtitled: Music For Pianist And Yamaha Disklavier. "This compilation of JB Floyd's keyboard music with the aid of the Yamaha Disklavier, spanning over 30 years of his career, signifies the great breadth of his creative experience and his surprising individuality in such diverse disciplines of musical style. 'Tribute For my Father' (1991) is a live performance by the composer. 'Solos And Sequences I'(1999) is a composition for pianist and Yamaha Disklavier performed here by Liana Pailodze. 'Variations-1979' was the first composition to capture the kind of music that Floyd has been improvising all his life. 'Waves: The Ebb And Flow' (1981) is related to the sounds of the Atlantic Ocean and its powerful, incessant wave motion. 'Solos And Sequences II, for pianist and Yamaha Disklavier, performed by Liana Pailodze.The unique sounds of the Buchla Synthesizer inspires 'Prince Of Pentacles' (1979) by transforming the piano to enable it to realize many more possibilities of timbre. 'Another Time And Place (1993), for Yamaha Disklavier, virtual instruments, percussion and solo pianist, performed by Doug Floyd and JB Floyd."

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