John Carroll Kirby

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Release Date: 08/28/2026
Format: LP
Label: Stones Throw
Release type: Vinyl LP Pressing. 

Piano Works 2016-2026 collects fourteen impromptu pieces by composer and producer John Carroll Kirby, written whenever he had the opportunity to sit at a piano while on the road. These mostly solo works for piano were recorded in Los Angeles, Rome, Tokyo, Wollongong (Australia), New Zealand and London.

Piano Works marks a departure from the full-band sound of recent albums Blowout and Septet, which Kirby has spent the past years performing live around the world. The album is a study in piano repertoire: Baroque, Romantic, Impressionist, jazz, minimalist, atonal, and more. Most of the pieces have an impromptu feel - improvised, or meant to sound improvised, or at least written in one sitting. The collected pieces on Piano Works are a document of Kirby's life as a piano player and touring musician, and "serve as the melodic / harmonic lexicon for what would inform all my other compositions of the past ten years."

1. MS4
   
2. First Position 1
   
3. First Position 2
   
4. Bendable Pine
   
5. Melody
   
6. Cecilia 14
   
7. Piano #4
   
8. Little Mouse
   
9. Impromptu
   
10. Empty Room
    
11. Suntory
    
12. Valentino
    
13. Rain Walking