AVAILABLE NOW:
Pianist MARC CARY Releases For the Love of Abbey,
a Sterling Piano Tribute for Mentor and Longtime
Employer, the Late Abbey Lincoln, via Motéma Music
For the Love of Abbey Receives Critical Acclaim:
"...he honors her legacy with soulful austerity and stoic introspection,
which seems fitting... It's clear that he has lyrics in mind, though he
also savors strictly musical details" - The New York Times
"Marc Cary is his generation's Mal Waldron... There is, to be sure,
no question of Cary's devotions to Lincoln and her music, which makes
the disc a triumph of emotional conviction" - Buffalo News
"Cary has shown through 'For The Love of Abbey' that he is the
21st Century version of a hi-tech Duke Ellington of music, a brilliant pianist
with a touch of avant-garde, post-bop and modern pianist styles all
rolled into combustion of dynamism!" - San Diego County News
Marc Cary
has gained a reputation as one of the most creative pianists of our
time, a bandleader with musical interests that encompass jazz, go-go,
hip-hop, electronic music, Indian classical music and more. But Cary is
also an incisive and sought-after accompanist, a fact famously borne out
by his 12-year tenure (beginning in 1994) with the great vocalist,
songwriter and jazz icon Abbey Lincoln.
For the Love of Abbey,
Cary's first solo piano recording, is the most personal and heartfelt
of tributes, shedding light on Lincoln's remarkable body of work and
honoring her extraordinary gift for melody and song craft. "Abbey's
compositions are worthy of an instrumental approach because they're so
rich and lend themselves to be interpreted as instrumentals," says Cary.
Cary's
tenure with Lincoln was longer than that of any other pianist. And Cary
was following in the footsteps of the very best: Mal Waldron, Hank
Jones, Wynton Kelly and Kenny Barron, among others. "I try not to freak
myself out by saying, 'Wow, now I'm the one,'" Cary reflects. "It made
me feel good but it didn't influence me in any way, because Abbey wanted
something new, something in the moment."
Even when paring down to solo piano on For the Love of Abbey,
Cary makes music of great orchestrational variety and depth. Still, he
heeds the wisdom of Lincoln herself, who would often admonish him with
the words: "It's a simple song." As Cary says, "With Abbey I had to play
differently than I did. It changed my whole perspective. I learned how
to deconstruct myself."
Asked
for the single most valuable lesson he got from Abbey Lincoln, Cary
responds: "Learning how to shed things you don't need, and claim what is
yours."
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Marc Cary performs with Abbey Lincoln
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Marc Cary · For the Love of Abbey
Motéma Music · Release Date: June 11, 2013
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