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Artist
Julian Waterfall Pollack
12+ albums
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about
At the mere age of eighteen, Julian Waterfall Pollack has the jazz community abuzz with his remarkably mature, technically ferocious, and dynamically original piano playing. A classically trained pianist, Pollack has unleashed into the world a singular blend of music that combines his love for today’s popular music styles and a respect for the classical tradition — with a forward-looking, innovative virtuosity well beyond his young years. Pollack will be featured on Marian McPartland’s renowned NPR show, Piano Jazz, on June 26th, 2007. The show will be aired nationwide. On his aptly-titled debut recording, Goin’ For It (Jazzschool Records, 2006), Pollack does just that. Writes San Jose Mercury News critic Andrew Gilbert: “Pollack may have started Goin’ For It as a student, but with the completion of his first album, he has earned the right to teach some lessons of his own.” The opening tracks “Take Me Outside” and “Valeria” may well be a contrast in style, but they are more clearly an indication of the astounding range of Pollack’s musical and compositional talent. His innovative approaches in re-imagining the jazz standard repertory include a new melodic and rhythmic structure in the pop music idiom of Miles Davis’ “Four,” and a jaw-dropping, re-harmonization with a hip-hop backbeat of John Coltrane’s famously complex “Giant Steps.” After the release of Goin’ For It, JAZZIZ Magazine selected the high-octane original, "Take Me Outside," to be on its monthly CD series, JAZZIZ
