The Pianist´s Garden Olga Konkova

• 1The Pianist´s Garden07:12
• 2Contented Today05:28
• 3Red Wing07:30
• 4Herzlich tut mich03:24
• 5The Garbage Truck Blues05:10
• 6Alaska06:43
• 7Schmücke dich04:02
• 8Lunar Ice (The Moon is Harsh)06:18
• 9Jim & Judy07:08
• 10Somewhere Near, and Beyond (the Rainbow)04:15
• 11Wie schön leuchtet04:02
• 12The Demise of Pluto04:32
• 13River Solhoi06:43
• Total Runtime01:12:27

Info zu The Pianist´s Garden

My biggest inspiration for this recording has been my discovering of a variety of woodwind sounds, of which I hadn’t previously been consciously aware.

Mark Heinecke comes originally from Wisconsin, USA, and has been living in Norway since 1977. Frederik Villmow is from Cologne, Germany, and lives in Norway.

This is not a traditional piano trio, but a beautiful experiment where both the woodwinds and drums provide the accompaniment for my piano.

Olga Konkove, piano, Fender Rhodes
Mark Heinecke, woodwinds, piano
Frederik Villmow, drums, percussion

Olga Konkova
(born 25 August 1969 in Moscow, Russia) is a Norwegian/Russian Jazz musician (piano), married to the bassist Per Mathisen, and known from several recordings and collaboration with international Jazz musicians like Adam Nussbaum, Gary Husband and Karin Krog.

Konkova was educated as classical pianist in Moscow, and later as jazz pianist at Berklee College of Music in Boston, where she met her husbond Per Mathisen. After moving with him to Oslo in 1994, she collaborated with Inge Stangvik Quartet and the «Storeslem Big Band». In her own Olga Konkova Trio she collaborates with her husband Per Mathisen (bass) and various drummers (Adam Nussbaum/Stein Inge Brækhus/Gary Husband). She has also collaborated within «Sernet Å Fyre» and «Store Norske Orkester». Konkova has also contributed to album releases and performances with artists like Finn Hauge, Magni Wentzel (Porty & Bess), Roy Nikolaisen (Roy’s choice), Øystein Sunde («Øystein Sunde… og vel så det», 2002) and Hans Mathisen (Quiet Songs).

2005: Spellemannprisen in the class Jazz, with Hans Mathisen, for the album Quiet Songs

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