Bill King: Sunday Afternoon Solo Piano Concert
Date and time is TBD
|Toronto
A fantastic Sunday afternoon with the great Bill King performing Solo Piano. This is a family friendly event, doors open at 2, show starts at 3pm.
Time & Location
Date and time is TBD
Toronto, 1300 Gerrard St E, Toronto, ON M4L 1Y7, Canada
About the event
Solo piano music fills its absolute potential when the entire dynamic, melodic and expressive range of the instrument is utilized in an uninhibited fashion that allows for the player’s idiosyncrasies to shine through. Paradise Blue manages to distinguish itself in precisely this way. The standards are tackled in an engaging and subversive manner. Bill King’s playing humbles itself, staying indebted to the original melodies, while also challenging the listener to find the tune within the margins of the creative voicings and improvisational storytelling.
On It Could Happen to You, King weaves an intricate rhythmic tapestry, punctuating every run and turn of phrase with inspired left-hand comping. The runs themselves are dizzying, incredible spiral staircases, seeming to ascend and descend at the exact same rate. While soloing, it can be evident that King is keeping a given song’s written melody in mind for pretty much the entire piece, often cleverly burying offhand references to…