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MP3 Spike Wilner - Late Night: Live At Smalls
9 MP3 Songs
BLUES: Jazzy Blues, JAZZ: Bebop
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In a 1994 New York Times review, critic Peter Watrous said "Mr. Wilner is completely at home at what he''s doing, and in his hands the rules of an idiom disappear, leaving an improvisational flexibility that''s available only to soloists who have really spent time learning their subject."
"Spike" Wilner began playing piano at an early age. His first love was ragtime piano and he performed at the St. Louis Ragtime festival when he was just fourteen. In 1986 Wilner returned to his native New York City and enrolled at the New School for Social Research''s Jazz and Contemporary Music program headed by Arnie Lawrence. Wilner attended the conservatory with many of today''s best talents, including Jesse Davis, Peter Bernstein, Brad Mehldau and Larry Goldings. There he had the opportunity to study with Jaki Byard, Walter Davis Jr., Kenny Werner, Junior Mance and others. Wilner also became a student of Barry Harris at the Jazz Cultural Theater who profoundly shaped his musical conception. Last year, Wilner furthered his education by spending one year studying privately with pianist Kenny Barron.
Wilner''s gigs in New York have included being house pianist at the Village Gate, joining alto-saxophonist Jesse Davis'' quintet at Augie''s, solo piano gigs at the Village Corner, trio gigs at Visiones and a house piano spot at The Angry Squire. Wilner became a part of the Dennis Jeter Quintet which ran a Monday night jam session at the Iridium for nearly two years and attracted many of the biggest names in jazz. For seven years until the club''s closing this year, Wilner held the house trio spot each tuesday night at the famous jazz club Smalls. As a part of the New York jazz scene for the last 15 years, Wilner has played with most of the contemporary names now well known in jazz such as: Peter Bernstein, Joe Magnarelli, Grant Stewart, Jesse Davis, Eric Alexander, Jim Rotundi, Joe Farnsworth, Ryan Kisor, Ralph Lalama, Sherman Irby, Stephon Harris and many others. Other professional work includes tours with the Artie Shaw Orchestra, the Glenn Miller Orchestra and a European tour with Maynard Furgeson''s "Big Bop Nouveu" band. Wilner has toured extensively in France as part of the Xavier Richardeau quintet. In Paris he has also worked with bassist Pierre Boussaguet and trombonist Sarah Morrow. Wilner participated in two Thelonious Monk Piano Competitions, one in 1989 as a finalist and one in 1993 as a semi-finalist. In 1998 Wilner worked with Wynton Marsalis on a ballet piece composed by Wynton and choreographed by Zhongmei Li that was performed at the Library of Congress. Wilner works and records with Washington D.C. vibraphone legend Lennie Cuje. He has also worked as rehearsal pianist with singer Tony Bennett and has recorded with Duke Ellington alumni Milt Grayson.
His debut album "Portraits" features Peter Bernstein and Joe Magnarelli and was released on the NJR record label. Wilner''s second disc "A Blues of Many Colors", a collection of originals, is on the FreshSound/New Talent label. It was named one of the top ten jazz releases for 2002 by jazz critic Greg Robinson for JazzTimes magazine (JazzTimes 1/2003). Thierry Leboff writing in the French jazz journal Jazz Magazine says of it (Jazz Magazine 529, September 2002):"Ici, en revanche, non seulement la musique est fraiche, legere, gaie, mais elle reste dans l''oreille, au point que, plus on l''ecoute, plus on a envie d''y revenir." (Here not only is the music fresh, light and happy, but stays in the ear and the more we hear it, the more we want to return to it.) Spike Wilner''s third recording (and the second for the FreshSound/New Talent label) "Late Night: Live At Smalls" will be released early this year.
Wilner has been a faculty member at the Brooklyn Conservatory and has guest lectured at Julliard. Wilner was just given the 2002 Jazz Scholarship award from the Hilton Head Jazz Society chosen out of 90 applicants. "Spike" Wilner invites you to email him at spikewilner@https://www.tradebit.com or leave him a message on his voicemail (212) 252-4774.
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