David Azarian

Armenian jazz pianist David Azarian counted the impressionistic, textural ruminations of Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea as his principal influences, though his own private style allowed for a distinctly cheerful undertone amid all of the introspection. Born within the Armenian capital of Yerevan in 1952, Azarian uncovered music through his dad, a instructor and orchestra musician. He himself began attending music college at age group seven, where he discovered classical piano; nevertheless, his hearing was soon considered jazz because of the Tone of voice of America radio broadcasts. He gained a esteemed Armenian piano competition at age group 12, and graduated from a specialist music college in 1970. 2 yrs later he produced his very own jazz trio, and performed together while furthering his education in a conservatory in Yerevan. In 1976, he was accepted to the esteemed Soviet Union Composer’s Union, and was tapped to business lead it and Radio Jazz Outfit of Armenia; he also performed within a jazz-rock fusion clothing on the Dvin Resort in Yerevan. In 1982, he produced a fresh trio that toured European countries as well as the Soviet Union, and in addition recorded many albums which were released just in his house nation. One, 1986’s Stairway to Seventh Heaven, was certified for release within the U.S. by Cell Fidelity a short while afterwards. In 1989, Azarian journeyed to Cambridge, MA, to execute several concerts being a gesture of thanks a lot for American help following a damaging earthquake in Armenia. A cathedral in Providence persuaded him to remain and perform many more benefit displays for earthquake victims both in Armenia and SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, and Azarian got an expansion on his ten-day visa that converted into a long lasting emigration. He remarried and resolved in Belmont, MA, and started performing across the Northeast with a fresh group. An record titled Surviving in Jazzland, which mixed two trio shows dating from 1991 and 1997 at open public radio place WGBH, was presented with a small discharge, and was reissued in 1999 with the German label Enja beneath the name Hope. Another record, Desire, was put together for the Gravity label from two Boston-area shows in 1998. Gravity also reissued Stairway to Seventh Heaven and another Soviet-era record, the early-’80s program Longing. Azarian became a member of the faculty from the renowned Berklee College of Music shortly before his tragic loss of life in a visitors incident on March 29, 2003; ceased to improve a driver’s-side car tire, his minivan was rammed by an erratically generating SUV, eliminating him instantly.