Bobby Avey

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Bobby Avey (* 1985 in Pennsylvania ) is an American jazz pianist , composer and arranger .

Live and act

Avey's father was a musician; he received piano lessons at an early age; It was not until he discovered jazz at the age of 15 that he became more intensively involved with music. He studied at the Purchase Conservatory of Music (Bachelor 2007 with summa cum laude ); During this time he worked as an arranger and musician with David Liebman , with whom he interpreted melodies by Schubert , Mendelssohn , Chopin , Schumann and Mahler as a duo . He is also active in the Liebman quartet.

In 2011 Avey released his debut album A New Face (with David Liebman, Thomson Kneeland, Jordan Pearlson), which was praised by the New York Times as “ a strong and purposeful album ”. The following year he won the Thelonious Monk competition in composition. In 2013 he released the solo piano album Be Not So Long to Speak with his own compositions. His quintet album Authority Melts from Me processes voodoo music and deals programmatically with the slave revolt in Haiti in 1791 .

In the field of jazz he was involved in twelve recording sessions between 2005 and 2016, including a. also with Bob Dorough and Jay Rattman .

Discographic notes

  • Dave Liebman & Bobby Avey: Vienna Dialogues (Zoho 2006)
  • Authority Melts from Me (Whirlwind 2014, with Miguel Zenón , Ben Monder , Thomson Kneeland, Jordan Perlson)
  • Inhuman Wilderness (Inner Voice 2016, with John O'Gallagher, Thomson Kneeland, Jordan Perlson)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Meeting ( JazzTimes )
  2. ↑ Interview on Authority Melts from Me
  3. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed January 27, 2019)
  4. ↑ Meeting (AllAboutJazz)
  5. ↑ Meeting ( The Guardian )
  6. ↑ (musikreviews.de)
  7. ↑ meeting (nextbop.com)
personal data
SURNAME Avey, Bobby
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz pianist, composer and arranger
DATE OF BIRTH 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Pennsylvania