Just a follow-up post to my recent review of Adam Fairhall‘s The Imaginary Delta (found HERE on Bird is the Worm).
I was given a heads-up by artist representative Sandra Nicholls-Marcy about an interview done with Fairhall shortly before the performance that yielded said album. It’s pretty short, but it hits on some key areas for the inspirations behind The Imaginary Delta.
It is a remarkable challenge to create a piece that is both innovative and nostalgic, one that blends the influences of the past with a vision of the future, and to do it without sanitizing one or the other. On The Imaginary Delta, UK pianist Adam Fairhall does exactly…
If I had to point to one album that exemplified the thriving state of Jazz and its undeniable hope for the future, it would be The Imaginary Delta. By mixing traditional instruments and forms with modern instruments and composition, Adam Fairhall is simultaneously forward-thinking while still tending to the…
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Aug 28 2012
Link to interview of Adam Fairhall
I was given a heads-up by artist representative Sandra Nicholls-Marcy about an interview done with Fairhall shortly before the performance that yielded said album. It’s pretty short, but it hits on some key areas for the inspirations behind The Imaginary Delta.
It’s on this Facebook page.
It’s also normally viewable on Nicholls-Marcy’s website, which is a nice site to spend some time on.
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