Larry Karush     piano

Jazz / World / New Music

improvisation / composition

Larry Karush is an improvising pianist/composer with roots in Jazz, 20th century western music, African-based percussion, and the music of North India. From Carnegie Hall to the Purple Onion, he has performed Jazz with John Abercrombie, Jane Ira Bloom, Eddie Gomez, Jay Clayton, Bennie Wallace and Oregon, World Music with Kanai Dutta, Francisco Aguabella, Geetha Ramanathan and Glen Velez, and New Music with Steve Reich.

His compositions and performances have been recorded on the ECM, Vanguard, Inner City, AudioQuest, Music of the World and NAXOS labels. He has received grants for his creative work from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the NEA/Arts International, Meet the Composer, the California Arts Council, and is the recent recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in music composition.

He has performed solo piano concerts of original music (and with his piano/bass/three world percussion ensemble, The Combination) throughout the United States in addition to festival appearances in Canada, Europe, and South Africa.





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"In 'Art of the Improviser', a riveting set of solo piano tracks, Karush draws together such disparate elements as bluegrass banjo, stride, tinges of Erik Satie, boogie-woogie, country and the blues. But his own vision -- one of the most fascinating in current jazz -- remains constant."

Los Angeles Times (Don Heckman)

"Elegant and earthy. . .His music travels around the world carving out some real poetry. Highly recommended."

Cadence

" * * * * 1/2. Distinctive; smoothly incorporates world musics."

Downbeat