Smart, Gary

Gary Smart: Blossoms / Gary Smart, piano

1 CD / Albany Records / 2011-08-09

Works: Gary Smart: Fanfare, for piano & radio; Blossoms, pieces (7) for piano; Inside, for piano; American Painters (4), for piano; Line Drawing, for piano; On Three Notes, for piano; In Black and White, fo...
Performers: Smart, Gary

A unique musician, composer-pianist Gary Smart composes and improvises a music that reflects an abiding interest in Americana, world musics and jazz, as well as...continue...
Recording information: Friday Musicale Hall, Jacksonville, FL....continue...

Gary Smart: Turtle Dreams of Flight

1 CD / Albany Records / 2010-01-12

Works: Gary Smart: Sonata for Piano no 1; Pieces (3) for piano; Sonata for Piano no 2
Performers: Smart, Gary

Performing his own music for piano on this recording, Gary Smart considers himself an improvising composer-pianist who finds ideas at the keyboard and works them...continue...
Recording information: Friday Musicale Hall, Jacksonville, FL....continue...

Hot Sonatas - Gary Smart / Gustafson, Finckel, Yehuda

1 CD / Albany Records / 2009-05-12

Works: Gary Smart: Maybrook Fancy, for flute; Sonata in Fancy, for cello & piano; Passing Fancies, for clarinet & piano
Performers: Finckel, Michael; Gustafson, Christine; Smart, Gary; Yehuda, Guy

Gary Smart notes: The three duo sonatas on this recording are "hot" in that they flow out of the American jazz tradition, "sonatas" in that...continue...

American Beauty - A Ragtime Bouquet - Joplin, Hampton, etc / Gary Smart

1 CD / Albany Records / 2008-06-10

Works: Joseph Lamb: Ragtime Nightingale; American Beauty Rag; Gary Smart: Laramie Rag; Two Flowers Rag; Cracker Rag; Peanut Butter Rag; Soirées de Vienne "Ragtime Rondo"; Harlequin Rag; Bell Rag; Jam...
Performers: Smart, Gary

The collection of classic and original rags offered by Gary Smart on this recording celebrates the lyrical side of this quintessentially American music. The ragtime...continue...

Gary Smart: The Major's Letter, etc / Toppin, Smart

1 CD / Albany Records / 2005-08-01

Works: Gary Smart: Sonnets (3) from the Portuguese; Me and My Song, song cycle for voice & piano; Bittersweets, song cycle for voice & piano; The Major's Letter; The First League Out from Land, song cycle f...
Performers: Brown, William; Kramar, John; Smart, Gary; Smart, Marilyn; Toppin, Louise