Solo piano on vinyl. Not really Jazz or Classical and far from Pop These types of recordings were sometimes called New Age for no good reason. I've always hated that label. It's not part of that way of life. It's just piano playing. There were a great many of these recordings (solo acoustic piano and solo acoustic guitar) made in the 1980's starting with the Windham Hill records but by the early 1990's the form had devolved into adding other instrumentation and slowly began to fade away.
From 1984. This is a alternate version of the album cover. Not what was used on my copy. I couldn't find a better image of the actual artwork.
From starting out listening to my parents records to staying up late at night listening to the radio to being introduced to album collecting as a teenager to making mix-tapes and into the present, it seems that I've always been searching for and listening to music of widely varied genres. Here's an idea of what I've been hearing along the way ....
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Saturday Vinyl Finds
It would be kinda funny, if it wasn't sad in my eyes but for the records that I'm interested in, the used bookstore is turning out t...
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Duke Ellington - The Ellington Suites. An antique shop find on vinyl. Jazz pieces recorded in 1959 and the early 1970's. Three separate ...
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A compilation from 2001 and Oxford American magazine. I think they would put out an annual collection of Southern music. I found two or thr...
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New vinyl titled, 'Terrain' from Portico Quartet. Discovered this group about a year ago while searching for new directions in jazz....

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