FRANK KIMBROUGH
Genres: Post Bop, Post-Fusion Contemporary, 21st Century Modern, Hard Bop, Avant-Garde Jazz • United States

American jazz pianist, born November 2, 1956 in Roxboro, North Carolina; died December 30, 2020 in Long Island City, N.Y.. from discogs One of the more individualistic acoustic pianists of the '80s, '90s, and 2000s, Frank Kimbrough is an "inside/outside" improviser whose primary influences range from Bill Evans and Keith Jarrett to Cecil Taylor, Paul Bley, and Andrew Hill. Kimbrough can play with as much elegance as Evans or Jarrett, but that doesn't prevent him from taking it "outside" and acknowledging Taylor's innovations. His 1988 debut Lonely Woman (titled for the Ornette Coleman composition), was celebrated for the arrival of a major new piano talent, while 2000's Quickening marked his first channeling of Thelonious Monk's rhythmic inventions. Verrazano Moon, a 2008 duo date with vibraphonist Joe Locke, delivered seven elegant, alternating originals and readings of more obscure tunes by Duke Ellington ("Single Petal of a Rose") and Monk ("Trinkle Tinkle"). The latter's read more...