Music Style Jazz

Artist History Marc Puricelli has performed and/or recorded with Chet Baker, Sonny Fortune, Jean Carne, Jack Wilkins, Mike Clark, Maceo Parker, Fred Wesley, Pee Wee Ellis, John Blake, Ahmed Abdullah, Kevin Eubanks, Omar Hakim, The Harlem Jazz Ensemble, The Springfield Symphony, Alvin Ailey, Dominic Duval, Erik Friedlander, Jim Payne’s New York Funk, and others. He has written and arranged for The JB Horns, John Purcell, DJ Scott Hardkiss, Vanessa Rubin, Jack Wilkins’ “Alien Army”, Das Kleine Orchester of Vienna, Jan DeGaetani and Gilbert Kalish, choreographer Janis Brenner, Turtle Island String Quartet, and vocalist Esther Satterfield, for whom he was musical director for many years. Puricelli is a longtime member of bassist Avery Sharpe’s quartet. He is also co-founder, along with bassist Michael Formanek, of “PureForm” which has written and produced the scores for numerous independent films. He has presented clinics and master-classes worldwide on the art of improvisation, and was a featured guest on Marian McPartland’s “Piano Jazz” heard on National Public Radio. He has released four albums of original music for the MusicMasters / Jazz Heritage label. His upcoming CD “Standards - Today and Tomorrow” (BJAC 5040-2) with bassist Dominic Duval and drummer Jackson Krall will soon be released on Blue Jackel Records. Marc Puricelli is a rare prize, a piano player with an unerring ear for blending elements of pop into his jazz with creativity and emotional candidness. As this album (Desire) on Jazz Heritage attests, the New Yorker is a first-class arranger and composer. ---Frank-John Hadley, Downbeat, Jazziz

Instruments piano, keyboards

Albums Alien Army, Melting Point, Desire, The Shade

Press Reviews Marc's approach to the piano and music is orchestral, his resources are global, and his goal is to make music at a new level. It speaks to the heart, the emotions, and to those unmapped areas of the mind in which new ideas can grow unhindered. Well outside the boundaries, The Shade is the nextstage in Marc's journey, a journey that we can make with him. --- Ernie Rideout, Keyboard Magazine What Melting Point affirms is that Puricelli is the rare musician who refuses to get handcuffed by category. The music on this record breathes with an ease and naturalness that underscores more than the leader's high powers of invention; it tells us that organically-derived music can not be confused with less honest efforts. Its purity is unmistakable, attesting to the very nobility of purpose implicit in speaking through one's instrument. For Puricelli, making music is not unlike breathing. -Jeff Levenson, Billboard Magazine

Location New York, NY - USA

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