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Rich Pellegrin

Topography (featuring Neil Welch)

By Rich Pellegrin

Label: Slow And Steady Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Side A: Treeline; Ravine; Butte; Stream; Clearing; Field (day). Side B: Field (night); Canyon (day); Bluff; (day); Bluff (night); Cave; Marsh.

Dan McClenaghan's Best Jazz Albums Of 2024

by Dan McClenaghan
December 9, 2024

These recordings are 2024's best of the best. If the business of jazz is a rough go, the art of jazz thrives. Click on the album titles to see the full reviews. Bill AnschellImprobable Solutions Origin Records David FriesenThis Light Has ...

Rich Pellegrin: Topography (featuring Neil Welch)

by Dan McClenaghan
October 8, 2024

Whidbey Island, nestled in the nook of Puget Sound, must be an inspiring place. Pianist Rich Pellegrin finds it so. He has recorded two solo works here, Solitude (OA2 Records, 2021), (review here) and Passage (OA2 Records, 2022), (review here). Both of these works--recorded in the same session--have a feeling of serenity, of an escape from ...

Rich Pellegrin: Passage

by Dan McClenaghan
April 7, 2022

In the summer of 2019, pianist Rich Pellegrin retreated to Whidbey Island, Washington, near Seattle. On the island, in the fellowship hall of the Langley United Methodist Church, lies an Everett Concert Grand Piano, from 1915. It is an aging and perhaps imperfect instrument, but one with a certain character which compelled Pellegrin to set up ...

Rich Pellegrin: Solitude

by Dan McClenaghan
April 12, 2021

Pianist Rich Pellegrin teaches at the University of Florida, in Gainesville. But, when he is not teaching, he flies diagonally across the country to land in Seattle. Then he catches a ferry to Whidbey Island--his retreat from the daily hubbub of making a living. His CD release Solitude was recorded there, at the Langley Methodist Church, ...

Richard Pellegrin: Down

by Dan McClenaghan
February 6, 2019

In an All About Jazz review of pianist/bandleader Rich Pellegrin's Episodes IV-V (OA2 Records, 2015), the author states that Pellegrin's style lies “somewhere in the middle of the spectrum between jazz and 21st century classical music." That also holds true with Down, the third quintet offering from the Assistant Professor at Florida State University.

Rich Pellegrin Quintet: Episodes IV-VI

by Dan McClenaghan
January 14, 2015

Pianist Rich Pellegrin offered up his first installment of Three Part Odyssey (OA2 Records) in 2011. It's a musical journey inspired by travels through Europe and North Africa. Employing a superb quintet, three “Episodes" blossomed from a first rate collective approach. Pellegrin and his group follow this up with Episodes IV-VI, featuring a slightly more reflective ...