news


Fall 2009

As part of the Italian Jazz Days festival, co-sponsored by the Italian Cultural Institute and JALC, Greg will play at Dizzy's Jazz Club in Lincoln Center in NYC with George Garzone, Rosario Giuliani and many others, the week of Oct. 12-18

Performance at the MIBnight Jazz Festival in Bremen, Oct 30, for the CD release of Jonathan Robinson's Spatial Stasis recording for the Berlin based ITM label.

The Lunar Quartet feat. John Tchicai new CD, Look to the Neutrino is out on Music Center Records. It features Marc Abrams, Enzo Carpentieri and Greg Burk.

Greg's Quartet, including Gaetano Partipilo, Jonathan Robinson and John B. Arnold performs at the Musicamdo Jazz Festival in Recanati Italy. This group, including Fabbio Recchia on live electronics has recently completed a new recording.

Greg Burk Trio with Jonathan Robinson and Gerald Cleaver tours Europe in early '09. Performances include Terni Grand Tour Jazz Festival, the Casa del Jazz in Rome and the AMR in Geneva.

Duo tou in Portugal with trumpet great Hugo Alves.

Greg appears with Frank Lacy/Henry Cook Quintet

 
Spring 2010

"The Logic of Chance" an in depth philosophical and musical look at the music of Paul Bley, is published by the Canadian Publisher Vehicule Press. This book was translated from the original text in Italian to English by Greg Burk.

Many Worlds Burk's new quartet recording was released by 482 Music Jan 26th of 2010. It features Henry Cook, Ron Seguin and Michel Lambert.

"A startlingly original improviser, rising pianist Greg Burk straddles a confluence of traditions, seamlessly balancing the spontaneity of free jazz with the discpline of mainstream conventions" Troy Collins, Allaboutjazz

"Working within the most quotidian of jazz instrumentation with only minor tweakings, Burk and his band mates still manage to arrive at something definitively apart from the commonplace." Master of Small House 

The Lunar Quartet feat. John Tchicai new CD, Look to the Neutrino is out on Music Center Records. It features Marc Abrams, Enzo Carpentieri and Greg Burk. The group's tour in spring 2010 includes performances in Pordenone, Turin, Milan, Monza, Genova, Padova, Mestre, Heilbronn Germany, and Ivrea.

Greg returns to New York University in Florence teach Jazz Piano and Ear Training for the Spring of 2010. 

Tour and workshop in Denmark with Pekka Pylkannen, Carlos Eziquiel, and Ronan Guilfoyle.

Greg's project Bouncing Bach performs at the Circolo dei Ministeri Esteri in Rome.  

 


Would you like to receive updates about concerts, workshops and my music? Subscribe to my newsletter

Keep me informed!