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Instrumental virtuosity, imaginative improvisation, and a worldwide view of music has enabled Los Angeles-based pianist and composer Larry Karush to balance Westernized jazz and world music. A regular collaborator of percussionist Glen Valez and bassist Glen Moore of globe fusion ensemble Oregon, Karush offers integrated Indian, African, and Brazilian into his improvisations. While his shows reflect deep considering, an psychological soulfulness is similarly expressed. Based on Audiophile Audition, “[Karush’s] design is usually cerebral but with guts and feelings.” While his parents paid attention to an array of music, neither was musically willing. Sent for traditional piano lessons at age six, Karush was discouraged from improvising. A turning stage in his musical development arrived when he started to research with L.A.-centered music teacher Steve Saxe. Throughout a March 2000 interview, Karush recalled, “[Saxe] was my 1st teacher to find out music like a continuum. He trained me about boogie-woogie and jazz.” Karush in the beginning gave little considered to a profession in music. As an undergraduate college student at Reed University in Portland, OR, he majored in mindset. The school, nevertheless, provided the establishing for conference Glen Moore. Influenced by their companionship, Karush spent many years learning music with personal teachers. He ultimately gained a master’s level in musical overall performance from NY University. Karush’s documenting debut came on, may 24, 1976, like a cooperation with Moore. Exactly the same season, he performed on Steve Reich’s groundbreaking avant-garde record, Music for 18 Music artists. He subsequently performed piano on albums by John Abercrombie and Jane Ira Bloom. Karush became a member of with Moore and Velez to create an improvisational trio, Mokave. Their self-titled debut record premiered in 1991. Within the years since, he’s continuing to stability albums using the trio and single recordings. He presently tours along with his own music group, the Larry Karush Outfit, offering Dave Carpenter (bass), Kendall Essential (drums), and Joey DeLeon (percussion).
