Formidable: Bernard Peiffer Solo Jazz Improvisations

Manege Productions 2006

The Formidable recording project began in 2001 when Stephan Peiffer visited
Don Glanden at The University of the Arts with a box of almost seventy reels of tape.
They represented more than twenty years of his father’s recorded legacy. Thus began Don
and Stephan’s collaboration on one of the defining documents of Bernard Peiffer’s career.
Of the great 20th century jazz piano virtuosos, Art Tatum, Oscar Peterson, Phineas
Newborn, and Bernard Peiffer, only Peiffer’s music remains relatively unknown to the
jazz community. With the release of Formidable in 2006, Peiffer’s brilliant playing can
be rediscovered by a new generation serious jazz listeners.

The full story about Bernard Peiffer and the making of Formidable can be found under
Articles and Reviews on donglanden.com

REVIEWS/QUOTES

“We finally have a proper document of the legendary Bernard Peiffer … when
completely unfettered he plays the impossible.”
ETHAN IVERSON: Downbeat

“The record is freakin’ great … This is a grand testament to his genius.

Michael Brecker

“Very few pianists who ever lived would have been capable of the outrageous
torrential cadenza that Peiffer lays on Jitterbug Waltz.”
THOMAS CONRAD: Jazz Times
 “Bernard’s music has been unjustly neglected but now has the opportunity to be
heard again.”
URI CAINE

“To listen to Bernard play was transforming; I have never heard anyone play the
piano like him.”
SUMI TONOOKA

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