6-395: Shadow Theater is the fifth album by Tigran Hamasyan published in 2013. The album contains 12 tracks and is a mix of several different styles, including jazz , jazz fusion , pop and Armenian folk . The album consists of tracks which he had composed many years ago, but not released. He then adapted and changed these tracks over around six years, until the album's release in 2013. This
12-560: The Armenian folk tradition , often using its scales and modalities. In addition to this folk influence, Hamasyan is influenced by American jazz traditions and, to some extent, as on his album Red Hail, by progressive rock. His solo album A Fable is most strongly influenced by Armenian folk music . Even in his most overt jazz compositions and renditions of well-known jazz pieces, his improvisations often contain embellishments based on scales from Middle Eastern/Southwest Asian traditions. Hamasyan
18-490: Was Tigran's second release on Verve and was released in the US on Sunnyside the following year. All tracks are written by Tigran Hamasyan This 2010s album–related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Tigran Hamasyan Tigran Hamasyan ( Armenian : Տիգրան Համասյան ; born July 17 1987) is an Armenian jazz pianist and composer . He plays mostly original compositions, strongly influenced by
24-578: Was born in Gyumri , Armenia . His ancestors were from the Kars region. His father was a jeweler and his mother designed clothes. At the age of three he began to play melodies on his family's piano, and he went to a music school from the age of six. As a young child, he dreamed of being a thrash metal guitarist. He studied jazz from the age of nine, then tried to incorporate local folk melodies into jazz-form improvisations when in his teens. At this stage, Hamasyan
30-515: Was influenced by Armenian composers Arno Babajanian and Avet Terterian . Hamasyan, together with his parents and sister, moved to Yerevan when he was around 10, and then to California when he was 16. He currently resides in Yerevan, Armenia. Hamasyan recorded his first album, World Passion , at the age of 18. He spent a lot of 2013 in Armenia, which helped develop his interest in its folk music. He
36-648: Was the leader of the "Aratta Rebirth", with which he performed Red Hail . On April 29, 2022, Nonesuch Records released Hamasyan's first album of American standards - StandArt . The project was recorded in the spring of 2021 in Los Angeles and includes 9 songs from the 1920s through the 1950s, by Richard Rodgers , Charlie Parker , Jerome Kern , David Raksin , and others. Bassist Matt Brewer, drummer Justin Brown, trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire , saxophonist and label-mate Joshua Redman , and saxophonist Mark Turner collaborated with
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