Eric Plaks - Chrysalis

by Eric Plaks

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1.	Ashes to Ashes 08:10	info	buy track
2.	Theme 6 - Vertical Slonimsky 05:49	info	buy track
3.	Spiky Swamp 06:10	info	buy track
4.	Theme 3 04:28	info	buy track
5.	Theme 4 06:05	info	buy track
6.	Theme 18 - For David S. Ware 05:22	info	buy track
7.	The Swamp in Moonlight 08:13	info	buy track
8.	Theme 1 - Chrysalis 04:43	info	buy track
9.	Theme 11 - For Cecil Taylor 05:22	info	buy track

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On his tenth and most recent album, Chrysalis, on Out Now Recordings, Plaks offers a program featuring 6 written themes (including two which honor David S. Ware and Cecil Taylor) alongside three sumptuous and spontaneous group compositions.

From Review by Bob Rusch, Jan 2019 Cadence Jazz Magazine:

"ERIC PLAKS [p] is a talented and powerful artist who has about 4 recordings out, his latest is on Out Now Records [#035] called CHRYSALIS. This 4/9/17 date finds Plaks with a very strong group; Andrew Hadro [bari/clts], Leonid Galaganov [drm] and Evan Crane [b] playing 9 originals [54:56]. This is free jazz at its best, especially the exchanges between Plaks and Hadro. There is an external framework for the groups music which suggests a strategy before playing so the music is form as opposed to totally non form. So far this is one of Plaks’ best."

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released August 1, 2018

Eric Plaks - piano; Andrew Hadro - baritone saxophone, bass clarinet, and b-flat clarinet; Evan Crane - bass (on tracks 3, 6, and 7); Leonid Galaganov - drums

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Eric Plaks New York, New York

Pianist Eric Plaks was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and attended Harvard College. A student of the entire history of jazz, from the most traditional forms to the most modern styles of creative improvisation, Eric began his performing and recording career when he moved to Harlem in 1996. He has appeared in various formats around New York City and the wider world. ... more

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