Leaving Everything Behind, by Yelena Eckemoff

Leaving Everything Behind

by Yelena Eckemoff

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1.	Prologue 03:03	buy track
2.	Rising From Within 05:04	buy track
3.	Mushroom Rain 06:57	buy track
4.	Coffee and Thunderstorm 08:42	buy track
5.	Spots of Light 07:42	buy track
6.	Love Train 08:21	buy track
7.	Leaving Everything Behind 08:33	buy track
8.	Hope Lives Eternal 07:40	buy track
9.	Tears of Tenderness 07:20	buy track
10.	Ocean of Pines 08:07	buy track
11.	A Date in Paradise 08:23	buy track

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"Leaving Everything Behind hardly represents what most people would classify as jazz. Of course, maybe it questions our preconceptions, too. After all, she has recruited three stellar jazz artists for this project. And there is plenty of improvisation on these 11 tracks. At the same time, those improvisations often don’t unfold in anything resembling a jazz format. Her piano seldom comps chords or plays clearly through changes. Sometimes she splashes dissonances in the background, as during violinist Mark Feldman’s solo on “Coffee & Thunderstorm.” More often, Eckemoff plays linearly, not so much while switching soloist and accompanist hats but as if lacing a thread through extemporized fabrics with various degrees of prominence in the mix. Always, her pedaling is subtle and expressive, her tone liquid or, as Chopinists like to say, “pearly.” Eckemoff, who is also a painter, presents Leaving Everything Behind as a visual artist might show in a gallery. Each title evokes some element of her life from her perspective as an émigré. Her works nod occasionally toward literalism—drummer Billy Hart’s chugging hi-hat at the top of “Love Train” is one of the few compositions in 4/4 among her preferred 6/8 meter. More often, her music is abstract, suggesting rather than depicting deep currents of emotion, always with candor and originality."
4-star review by Bob Doerschuck for DOWNBEAT, August 2016 issue

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released May 13, 2016

Recorded on September 1 - 2, 2015 at Sear Sound Studios, New York, NYRecording engineer - James A. Farmer, mixed and mastered by Rich Breen. Produced by Yelena Eckemoff.

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Yelena Eckemoff New York, New York

Yelena Eckemoff s an internationally renowned Russian/American pianist, composer, poet, and visual artist who organically blends classical elements with jazz improvisation in evocative and uniquely distinctive works that strike a delicate balance between through-composed frameworks and open-ended exploration and improvisation. ... more

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