Cary Kilner
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Cary Kilner's Picks: Volume 57
Ernie Watts Quartet – Topic I’ve been meaning to bring you this wonderful California tenor player. He is most often featured on pop and smooth-jazz recordings. But as you can hear, he’s a great jazz performer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwHI5sg4J68 Monty Alexande, Ray Brown, and Russell Malone – Producer's Choice What a wonderful quartet and a group of very mature jazz artists who really know how to swing hard. Here's the whole album from 2008 (I can't identify the drummer). They also have a trio album from 2002 without a drummer, that is very nice. https://youtu.be/tWXeIHUyEEg Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band – On Green Dolphin Street This is a wonderful treatment of an old warhorse. A great piano solo to begin the link followed by great ensemble playing. https://youtu.be/D-81rjwj368 Billy Childs – The End of Innocence Another great pianist I've failed to present previously. And what a nice tune and quartet – lots of space and subtlety. https://youtu.be/75yC-gt9rMM Doug Webb – Soul Eyes This is some swinging music – note when the drummer goes from brushes to sticks at 2:30 and the energy really ramps up! https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=MkXoysbVdhA&feature=share Bill Cunliffe – Afluencia Here's some nice Latin music from a group of stellar artists. https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=iCB1wmDz4QI&feature=share About Cary When Cary was 8 years old he began playing flutophone, then cornet in the high school concert band and began piano lessons. He played in the Michigan State Marching Band and Jazz Band. He abandoned a career as a chemical engineer after college to move to Boston to study jazz piano. There he took lessons with Bob Winter and vocal coach, Eddie Watson, and learned to play electric bass in a trio with Al Vega. Cary has played with Claudio Roditi, Joe Hunt, John Lockwood, Greg Hopkins, and many other Boston musicians from the 1970s, including that cohort of Brazilians who taught him a lot about samba and bossa-nova. In 1980, he moved to the Seacoast to teach chemistry at Exeter High School and PEA Summer School. In 2004, he matriculated to UNH as the first doctoral student in a new program in chemistry education research. Graduating with a Ph.D. in 2014 he did some teaching but is now retired and has returned to practicing the piano. About jazz he writes, "What I like most about playing jazz is how melody, harmony and rhythm interact spontaneously." |
