Djangirov, Eldar / Three Stories
Album: Three Stories   Collection:Jazz
Artist:Djangirov, Eldar   Added:Jun 2011
Label:Sony Classical  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2011-06-26 Pull Date: 2011-08-28 Charts: Jazz
Week Ending: Aug 28 Aug 21 Aug 14 Jul 10 Jul 3
Airplays: 1 2 1 2 2

Recent Airplay
1. Sep 26, 2022: Rebop
Embraceable You
4. Aug 24, 2011: Memory Select
I Should Care
2. Jul 25, 2022: Rebop
I Should Care
5. Aug 20, 2011: Rebop
Windows
3. Feb 19, 2016: Rebop
I Should Care
6. Aug 19, 2011: No Cover, No Minimum
In Walked Bud

Album Review
Fo
Reviewed 2011-06-19
ELDAR DJANGIROV: Three Stories
Sony Masterworks, 2011

JAZZ/CLASSICAL – Solo piano. Eldar first burst onto the jazz scene at age 12 and had a major-label deal by the time he was 17, powered by Art Tatum pyrotechnics and laser-etched technique. Now approaching his mid-twenties, he’s starting to show a bit of life experience and depth too. This CD drags in the middle, but there are some fine tracks.

Fo’s Picks: 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 13

1. 5:11 – jazz standard: prancing over the keys, picks up locomotive stride
2. 3:56 – Bach prelude: super speedy and impeccably crisp
3. 5:49 – jazz standard: music-box intro, fragile impressionist fantasy
4. 5:00 – Chick Corea ballad: airy, dreamy; classical touches, Coltrane quotes
5. 5:49 – Scriabin etude: lush and sad, comes in waves
6. 4:54 – Thelonious Monk transformed: invokes Gershwin, stride, waltz, more
7. 5:43 – original tune, a dancing classical tone poem with several moods
8. 4:18 – Dave Matthews pop song: rolling, light and warm
9. 4:33 – Gershwin standard: flowing and very relaxed, flies into daydream
10. 3:33 – original tune, soft and delicate but with one heavy late surge
11. 2:58 – Bach air, abstracted: drifting with poetic style
12. 5:46 – original tune: lively pace, undulating in soft curves
13. 14:59 – “Rhapsody in Blue” played straight and with plenty of verve
14. 3:20 – Charlie Parker bebop has a casual, tossed-off air but blazing speed

[ Fo ] 06/19/11

Track Listing
1. I Should Care   8. So Damn Lucky
2. Bach: Prelude In C# Major   9. Embraceable You
3. Darn That Dream   10. Russian Lullaby
4. Windows   11. Bach: Air On A G String
5. Scriabin: Etude Op. 2 No. 1   12. Impromptu
6. In Walked Bud   13. Rhapsody In Blue
7. Three Stories   14. Donna Lee