David Chesky

David Chesky – The Zephyrtine: A Ballet Story (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:04:54 minutes | 1,61 GB | Genre: Classical
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Rui Massena conducts the Fundação Orquestra Estúdio’s recording of David Chesky’s fantasy for children The Zephyrtine ballet. The characters throughout the ballet are represented by specific instruments; the two main characters, Ben and the Zephyrtine, are voiced by the piccolo and the French horn.

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David Chesky – The New York Rags (2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 41:30 minutes | 1,28 GB | Genre: Jazz, Fusion
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David Chesky’s series of 18 modern virtuoso solo piano rags are inspired by life in the bustling and intense metropolis of New York City, a place he has called home since 1974. The work seems to owe as much to Henry Cowell and Charles Ives’ use of dissonance, Elliott Carter’s atonalism, Conlon Nancarrow’s experimental piano rolls, Leonard Bernstein’s syncopation, and Cecil Taylor’s whirlwind free jazz as they do to Joplin’s ragtime classics. These pieces are taken from Chesky’s unique rhythmic and harmonic style of composition, fused together with stride piano and ragtime to capture the everyday life of modern pulsating New York City. This album was recorded in Binaural+ for both speaker and 3D headphone playback and has EXTREME dynamics, so please set your playback levels carefully.

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David Chesky – String Theory (2011)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 56:19 minutes | 515 MB | Genre: Classical
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David Chesky’s three new concertos have redefined the role of the modern string soloist. By fusing the classical concerto form with the modern harmonic language of American rhythmic jazz, these innovative works extend theoretical parameters to realms reserved only for the few pioneers truly revolutionizing their instruments today. Tom Chiu and Dave Eggar are by turn chamber soloists, free jazz experimentalists, and poetic sound abstractionists who bring a volcanic rock-and-roll energy to these works, transcending the typical concerto. Fiendishly difficult passage work and extreme timbral ranges present a new athleticism to the musical virtuosity as the soloists debate, collide and duel with the orchestra and also with each other. Throughout, Chesky’s poignant juxtaposition of primitive power of urban groove and the elegance of classical refinement reveals the birth of a new genre in American music.

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David Chesky – Rap Symphony (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 45:04 minutes | 437 MB | Genre: Classical, Jazz, Hip-Hop
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David Chesky’s Rap Symphony is about a transitional society, a society that is shifting from the word to the image. Our civilization once used to believe in depth and reading and art; now abstract thought is changing into a simplistic, superficial society where one is consumed with the quick Starbucks or Twitter fix. It’s all lightness of being today. We don’t celebrate anticipation anymore, people don’t want to put the time in. This symphony is about the collapse of that whole ethos.

The phrase in the lyrics that says ‘kill the philharmonic’ doesn’t mean that literally. It’s a metaphor for a society that has no use for the philharmonic. We’re losing these things. Pretty soon John Coltrane and Miles Davis, along with all jazz and classic music, will become museum pieces. We used to have a culture that cherished these, but in a super simplistic society, there’s just no room for them.

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David Chesky – Jazz In The New Harmonic (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:09:15 minutes | 2,85 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Chesky Records

With Jazz In The New Harmonic David Chesky fuses 21st century classical harmonies with his city’s rhythms to create a new genre of jazz. Jazz In The New Harmonic liberates the pulse, soul, energy, and groove from past traditions, it’s the first encounter with the transcendental music of our age. Chesky is a first class provocateur, and his 21st century classical harmonic approach kicks into high gear with his streamlined New York groove machine. Chesky’s vision has been realized with this super band of all star jazz musicians.

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David Chesky – Jazz In The New Harmonic (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:09:15 minutes | 2,85 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Chesky Records

With Jazz In The New Harmonic David Chesky fuses 21st century classical harmonies with his city’s rhythms to create a new genre of jazz. Jazz In The New Harmonic liberates the pulse, soul, energy, and groove from past traditions, it’s the first encounter with the transcendental music of our age. Chesky is a first class provocateur, and his 21st century classical harmonic approach kicks into high gear with his streamlined New York groove machine. Chesky’s vision has been realized with this super band of all star jazz musicians.

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David Chesky – Brazil Dances (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 13:13 minutes | 233 MB | Genre: Classical
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Composer David Chesky has two full length albums planned later in 2015, one orchestral and one jazz. In preparation for these, enjoy a small taste of David’s works with this mini album featuring his three Brazilian Dances for solo piano as well as his Etude No. 1 for solo piano. Both works emanate from David’s compositional style, a combination of 21st century harmonies paired with South American rhythms.

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David Chesky – Area 31 (2005)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:31 minutes | 1,04 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Chesky Records

“The restless composer has had one hand in jazz, one in classical. Here he brilliantly blends the two, adding ethno-folk into the mix. Musically audacious, and one of the finest recordings you’ll ever hear, period.” — Michael Fremer, Musicangle

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David Chesky – The Great European Songbook (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 40:58 minutes | 432 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © The Audiophile Society

“I started my career as a jazz musician. Then I spent many years composing symphonic works and incorporating jazz into many of them. Now it gives me great happiness to reverse it – to take pieces of classical music and use them as the basis for playing jazz. It is such a pleasure to play in a trio setting with both Billy Drummond and Peter Washington who were part of my quintet Jazz in the New Harmonic. Moreover, it is great that, like me, they both are audiophiles and care tremendously about how things sound.” – David Chesky

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