The Pianist´s Garden Olga Konkova

• 1 The Pianist´s Garden 07:12
• 2 Contented Today 05:28
• 3 Red Wing 07:30
• 4 Herzlich tut mich 03:24
• 5 The Garbage Truck Blues 05:10
• 6 Alaska 06:43
• 7 Schmücke dich 04:02
• 8 Lunar Ice (The Moon is Harsh) 06:18
• 9 Jim & Judy 07:08
• 10 Somewhere Near, and Beyond (the Rainbow) 04:15
• 11 Wie schön leuchtet 04:02
• 12 The Demise of Pluto 04:32
• 13 River Solhoi 06:43
• Total Runtime 01:12:27

Info for The Pianist´s Garden

My biggest inspiration for this recording has been my discovering of a variety of woodwind sounds, of which I hadn’t previously been consciously aware.

Mark Heinecke comes originally from Wisconsin, USA, and has been living in Norway since 1977. Frederik Villmow is from Cologne, Germany, and lives in Norway.

This is not a traditional piano trio, but a beautiful experiment where both the woodwinds and drums provide the accompaniment for my piano.

Olga Konkove, piano, Fender Rhodes
Mark Heinecke, woodwinds, piano
Frederik Villmow, drums, percussion

Olga Konkova
(born 25 August 1969 in Moscow, Russia) is a Norwegian/Russian Jazz musician (piano), married to the bassist Per Mathisen, and known from several recordings and collaboration with international Jazz musicians like Adam Nussbaum, Gary Husband and Karin Krog.

Konkova was educated as classical pianist in Moscow, and later as jazz pianist at Berklee College of Music in Boston, where she met her husbond Per Mathisen. After moving with him to Oslo in 1994, she collaborated with Inge Stangvik Quartet and the «Storeslem Big Band». In her own Olga Konkova Trio she collaborates with her husband Per Mathisen (bass) and various drummers (Adam Nussbaum/Stein Inge Brækhus/Gary Husband). She has also collaborated within «Sernet Å Fyre» and «Store Norske Orkester». Konkova has also contributed to album releases and performances with artists like Finn Hauge, Magni Wentzel (Porty & Bess), Roy Nikolaisen (Roy’s choice), Øystein Sunde («Øystein Sunde… og vel så det», 2002) and Hans Mathisen (Quiet Songs).

2005: Spellemannprisen in the class Jazz, with Hans Mathisen, for the album Quiet Songs

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