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NEW RELEASE
High Wall:
Real Life Film Noir
High Wall (MGM film theme by Bronislaw Kaper - premier jazz recording)
High Wall
has reached the #8 spot on the 'JazzWeek' radio
charts.
"Vuckovich continues to reveal that he is the most poetic
interpreter of film noir. The title track is an unknown minor
masterpiece composed by Branislav Kaper for a 1947 film. Vuckovich
crystallizes it's ambivalent melancholy. His own "View From Telegraph Hill,"
commissioned for a film noir festival, is a mystery of brightness and shadow.
The lush, archaic 1940 romanticism of Jack Lawrence's "A Handful of Stars,"
in a luminous solo piano unfolding, beautifully belongs."
-Thomas Conrad
-Eighty-Eights column, JazzTimes
"...soars to new heights"
-Reese Erlich,Public Radio
"High Wall is of strong interest from start to finish. Highly recommended."
 4 1/2 Stars
-Scott Yanow, All Music Guide
"A
MONSTER of a player who should be much more well known.
(High Wall: Real Life Film Noir) is one of his best
recordings to date."
-Gary Walker - Music Director
and Morning Host of WBGO NJ/NYC
"...
any discussion of the best jazz piano players in the world
must now include Larry Vuckovich!"
-Brad Stone - Music Director
and on-air host KSJS - San Jose, CA
"Jazz
Pianist Vuckovich Finds Truth, Beauty in the Darkness"
-Art Tashiro, Film Noir Foundation Interview,
pg 5-6
Film Noir Foundation Interview Article
"Vuckovich's craft boasts a myriad of elemental components.
Young pianists take heed! Check out his charismatic
delivery, largely designed upon asymmetrical, yet poignant fusions
of finesse and muscle."
-Glenn Astarita, JazzReview.com
"Vuckovich does many dazzling technical things ... the trio
dates are expertly done, and the occasional quintet pieces
equally sharp."
-Ron Wynn - RIFFS Nashville Daily News
"... a classy jazz piano date...elegant and earthy with a surprising amount of funk...a real winning date."
-Chris Spector, Midwest Record
"A gorgeous follow-up to Vuckovich's critically acclaimed
2006 CD, Street Scene .. there is no holding back on this disc.."
-Tom Henry, The Toledo Blade
"The
musical cohesion is truly something special...Vuckovich also
works through Coltrane's blazing hot Locomotion."
-Jordan Richardson, BC Music
Street Scene
Street Scene
has reached the #1
Spot on XM Satellite Radio.
Street Scene
has reached the #10 spot on the 'JazzWeek' radio charts.
"...a pianist whose evocative touch and
poetic (but unsentimental) sensibility convey the wisdom of
deep musical life experience"
-Thomas Conrad, Jazztimes.com
“… he creates an earthy post-bop style of richly varied improvisational expression.”
- Jazz Podium (Germany)
"A true musician's musician...originality, elegance, dexterity and most of all...great sense of swing, time, space and phrasing. For those who are keen on a superior jazz trio, Street Scene is highly recommended."
-Gilbert Mathieu, Jazz Improv
"Larry's creative flow is always purely of the present
moment...a true delight for the ears, heart and mind."
-Pianist, Benny Green
"A beautiful CD...Larry's vision and
musicality come at you from a slightly different angle."
-Alto saxophonist, Charles
McPherson
"...impressive range of arranging and
improvisational skills"
-Mark Holston, Jazziz
"...masterpieces of form, style, rhythm,
heart, and ever loving swing. There is a fire and compelling
spirit within these tracks that captures the character of
jazz better than recordings by bigger names in more
expensive contexts."
-Thomas R. Erdmann,
Jazzreview.com
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