A possessor of dazzling technique, in terms of speed, accuracy and the ability to turn a phrase into a big run, relative newcomer pianist Marko Churnchetz, a Slovenian based in New York, has been signed recently to Whirlwind Recordings who release his label debut Devotion on 7 July. Featured on piano, Fender Rhodes and keyboards, Churnchetz appears with bustling tenorist Mark Shim (also wielding a Yamaha electric midi controller), bassist Christopher Tordini, and drummer Justin Brown on the record.
Listen above to Churnchetz's composition ‘Risk Free’ performed by the quartet, which appears as the sixth track on Devotion