Rand Lines

Jazz Today

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 18:05:00 -0400

Our friend Rand Lines, performing as part of the Carlton Owens Trio, fills the patio of the Square One Fish Co. with some terrific piano jazz during Sunday brunch.

Haha. That’s me!

Photos

Sat, 14 Mar 2009 14:56:00 -0400

"I have no problem with an art form being elitist,” he said when asked if it bothers him that jazz..."

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:18:30 -0400

“I have no problem with an art form being elitist,” he said when asked if it bothers him that jazz has turned from folk music into an “elitist” type of music. “There is so much noise today that being able to discern what is beautiful requires a lot of effort. Few people will go to the trouble to do that. Few will have the curiosity. But jazz is not elitist – it is marginalized and ignored. All those musicians struggling to pay their bills would not describe it as elitist.”

- Brad Mehldau

Videos

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:10:00 -0400

Rand Lines Trio: Birding
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Rand Lines Trio: Gingerbread Man
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I played Piano for the soundtrack for this movie by Eikon Productions

Press

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:58:00 -0400

The Bad Plus Blog

-Ethan Iverson, Do The Math December 4, 2007

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Flagpole Record Reviews

-Phillip Buchan, Flagpole Magazine November 7th, 2007

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Flagpole Live Reviews

-Tony Floyd, Flagpole Magazine, November 8, 2009

"I’m never trying to get it to sound just like a piano. I’m trying to find every possible..."

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 02:34:25 -0400

““I’m never trying to get it to sound just like a piano. I’m trying to find every possible way to make it either a voice or an instrument that is unlike a Western instrument. You know, it can’t be a guitar but I wish it was; it can’t be an orchestra but I wish it was. So the rebellion that I’m faced with immediately upon sitting down at a piano is that it is a piano. And I can turn cartwheels — it’s not going to make any difference. But what I can do is try to almost fool the instrument into becoming something else.””

- Keith Jarrett, WSJ January 2009