Composer/Pianist Gregg Kallor's 'A Single Noon' Now Available

Composer/pianist Gregg Kallor releases his latest recording, A Single Noon, on April 30, 2013 on the Single Noon Records label (SNR 3).

A Single Noon is a tableau of life in New York City, told through a combination of composed music and improvisation. The nine movements in this suite are meant to be evocative snapshots - moments of caffeinated bliss, embarrassing subway mishaps, the buzzing energy of a city driven by dynamic, thoughtful, talented, and slightly crazy people - that coalesce into a more complete story. Each movement develops an aspect of the Single Noon theme, and improvisation is incorporated throughout the suite as a commentary on and development of the themes in the music.

Five-time Grammy nominee Fred Hersch (co-producer of this recording) calls A Single Noon "the work of an extraordinary pianist, a composer of great distinction and a true conceptualist... this ambitious and unique suite takes us somewhere that is very deeply heartfelt and dazzlingly executed. This is 21st-century music that has clearly absorbed the past and looks to a bright and borderless musical future."

Single Noon Records is distributed by Naxos of America and Naxos of Canada.