Rebirth by Billy Childs
On his album Rebirth, Childs reaches back to the start of his almost astoundingly varied musical experience—leading a small jazz band of state-of-the-art musicians with his piano playing.
At his musical core, Childs is an improvising pianist. He has the ability to equally distill the harmonic and rhythmic languages of classical music and jazz into his playing. The wide-ranging vocabulary on the taut track “Tightrope” begs the question of Childs’ love of classical music; “I’m not just jazz,” he stresses. His insistent pulse and melodically probing introduction to the song are key to Childs’ musical identity: open to extended harmonic possibilities as they come along, taking a flexible approach to time, and leaving an open door for input from his bandmates.
Tracklist
| 1. | Backwards Bop | 6:38 |
| 2. | Rebirth | 7:38 |
| 3. | Stay | 5:59 |
| 4. | Dance of Shiva | 6:51 |
| 5. | Tightrope | 6:37 |
| 6. | The Starry Night | 8:10 |
| 7. | The Windmills of Your Mind | 7:10 |
| 8. | Peace | 7:29 |
Credits
Producer: Billy Childs
Billy Childs: piano
Steve Wilson: alto and soprano saxophone
Hans Glawischnig: acoustic bass
Eric Harland: drums
Claudia Acuña: vocals (on "Rebirth")
Alicia Olatuja: vocals (on "Stay")
Ido Meshulam: trombone (on "Rebirth")
Rogerio Boccato: percussion (on "Rebirth")
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Pianist Billy Childs is one of the foremost American composers of his era and has successfully married the musical products of his heritage with the Western neoclassical traditions of the twentieth century in a powerful symbiosis of style, range, and dynamism. Thus far in his career, Childs has garnered several honors including seventeen GRAMMY® Award nominations, and won six of them.