• Solo Jazz Piano freely improvised with standards and originals “sung” through the piano
• Great American Songbook e.g. Ugly Beauty

ARTISTIC PROFILE

While jazz may be difficult to define, improvisation is clearly one of its key elements. And you will get plenty of it by listening to this pianists playing. As he states himself: “The most consistent aspect of my approach to music is improvisation. I mostly enjoy, sitting down and stirring the canon as it comes to me in the moment”. He likes to explore aspects of Latin, albeit Afro Cuban, Brazilian, Cumbia etc. as well as classical influences such as Chopin, Debussy, Ravel, Bartok and Stravinsky.

• B.M. and M.M. at the prestigious Manhattan School of Music in Jazz Composition in May 2006 graduating with honors, receiving the William C. Borden award for outstanding achievement in the field of Jazz
• house pianist at the legendary Rainbow Room, playing there for a number of years as alternating Latin and American Jazz pianist

“Bob is a wonderfully creative pianist … He not only has a firm grasp on standards, his compositions are most interesting and he is someone who is not a traditionalist but knows the tradition which is a compliment I do not use very often.”
  –   Michael Abene, Grammy winning Composer, Arranger, Producer and currently the Musical Director of the WDR Big Band of Cologne

“Bob Albanese is a rhymer, a poetic soul whether he is thinking and talking or composing and playing. He has all the requisites–harmonic acumen, melodicism and swing. With all that he has nuance, that certain something that gives him distinction. He’s not radical, or fanatical but artistically he’s never on sabbatical.”
  –   Ira Gitler, jazz historian and journalist, former New York editor of Down Beat magazine. He was given the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Jazz Journalists Association.