Piano Dreams

San Diego City Beat
The sounds Strock strings together are achingly heartfelt and sincere, unfailingly perfect in their gentle dissonance.

Product Description
ROMANTIC piano jazz. Yet not syrupy. Achingly heart-felt, brashly unique, addictive and sensual.

Fresh new versions of the most unforgettable songs by Rogers and Hart, Gershwin, Keith Jarrett, Duke Ellington, Billy Preston and Thad Jones.

And goosebump-producing originals...all of which beckon for repeat listening. Like many jazz musicians, Strock starts with the assumption that you know the melodies. He delights us with surprising variations on these familiar tunes. This pianist then goes one step further and assumes you know the rhythm and phrasing too. Dissecting the melody, he digs in, holding each chord up for inspection, twisting and shaping and then holding on, letting the chords breathe and stretch, and allowing the piano to respond. Perhaps even better than Strock's treatment of beloved standards, are his mesmerizing originals. He has taken to heart the old adage that music is as much about the silence as the sound, as much about the notes that are not played as those that are. The unexpected pauses and harmony will keep you coming back.

Piano Dreams

Piano Dreams,Doug Strock,Strock Music,ROMANTIC piano jazz. Achingly heart-felt, brashly unique, addictive, sensual beloved melodies and haunting originals. Lush harmony around exquisite pauses.

Jazz Music:

1. Power Forward
2. Psychedelic Jazz & Funky Grooves [Import]
3. Pure Gold
4. Quiet Songs
5. Rosebud
6. 'Round Midnight: Hommage à Thelonious Monk
7. Royal Ballads
8. Rush Hour
9. Secrets
10. Solo Songs

Jazz Music

jazz music

Jazz Music

Creative Eclipses

Jean Sibelius: Symphony No.2 In D major, Op.43/Finlandia Op.26

Military Music From the Age of Reason

Music: Banks of Green Willow

Girlie Years

Hope

I'm a Woman/Norma Deloris Egstrom from Jamestown, North Dakota [Import]

Liebesfreud, Liebesleid

Jamul [Import]

Handel: Messiah (Highlights) / Solti, Chicago Symphony (Penguin Music Classics Series)

House & Dance [Import]

In Concert [Live]

Grandes Conjuntos [Import]

Come Over to My Place

Roll Call