Eric Plaks - Transgressions

by Eric Plaks

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1.	Theme 59 - Transgressions 09:57	buy track
2.	Theme 60 - For Daniel Carter 05:22	buy track
3.	Theme 61 - For Svetlana Boym 05:07	buy track
4.	Theme 62 - Cecil Waves 07:22	buy track
5.	Theme 63 - For John Hicks 04:03	buy track
6.	Theme 64 - For Matthew Shipp 05:25	buy track
7.	Theme 42 - Tiananmen Blues - For Rose Tang 05:52	buy track
8.	Improv 5 05:29	buy track

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Theme 59 – Transgressions - Music can be heard as “wrong”, an artistic choice can be thought of as “inappropriate”, but as far as grist for the artistic mill, there is always the interest inherent in crossed boundaries, blurred edges, and constant trespass.

Theme 60 – For Daniel Carter – For the one and only NYC legend, and his profligate beauty on seven horns and piano.

Theme 61 – For Svetlana Boym (1959 – 2015) – Svetlana was my advisor and my mentor in Russian Literature at Harvard. She was an original and inspiring superstar, and taught me how to measure imagination.

Theme 62 – Cecil Waves – "Cecil Waves" is the name I give to a way of navigating through triplet arpeggios a la Cecil Taylor, but also just a poignant thought of missing the maestro who left us in 2018.

Theme 63 – For John Hicks – Hicks was the first jazz legend to make me feel like I belonged – an experience other musicians reported as well – and his shimmering swing lives on forever.

Theme 64 – For Matthew Shipp – Shipp is a touchstone for me, a foil and an enigma. His style is so dominant, so magnetic, so various. I step around his vast echoing shadow in search of my own sound.

Theme 42 – Tiananmen Blues – For Rose Tang – This is a home recording with Evan Crane on bass, dedicated to Rose for surviving to tell about it (and inviting me to play in a 30th anniversary commemoration with student leaders and dissidents who participated in the 1989 democracy movement in China).

Improv 5 – The last piece on this album was also the last take recorded at the studio session.

THANK YOU – Jon Rosenberg, Nick Lyons, Gloria Plaks

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released December 21, 2022

Recorded on December 1, 2021
At Big Orange Sheep in Brooklyn
Except Theme 42, recorded at home on my digital mic on April 23, 2019 with Evan Crane on bass.
Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Jon Rosenberg (except for Theme 42, recorded on Zoom H2 digital mic)
Film photography by Nick Lyons

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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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