Larry Karush

Larry Karush is an improvising pianist/composer with roots in Jazz, 20th century western music, African-based percussion, and the music of North India. From Carnegie Hall to the Purple Onion, he has performed Jazz with John Abercrombie, Jane Ira Bloom, Eddie Gomez, Jay Clayton, Bennie Wallace and Oregon, World Music with Kanai Dutta, Francisco Aguabella, Geetha Ramanathan and Glen Velez, and New Music with Steve Reich.

His compositions and performances have been recorded on the ECM, Vanguard, Inner City, AudioQuest, Music of the World and NAXOS labels. He has received grants for his creative work from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the NEA/Arts International, Meet the Composer, the California Arts Council, and is the recent recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in music composition.

He has performed solo piano concerts of original music (and with his piano/bass/three world percussion ensemble, The Combination) throughout the United States in addition to festival appearances in Canada, Europe, and South Africa. 

Larry Karush was a nominee for the Herb Alpert Foundation's 2008 Award in the Arts, and received the Alpert/Ucross Foundation Residency Prize.  During his artist-in-residency, he completed "The Salsa Way", a solo piano comprovisation, which he will premiere on the Angel City Festival.  "The Salsa Way" explores the interplay and juxtaposition of linear and rhythmic counterpoint, salsa and afro-cuban rhythms, open thematic improvisation, piano ostinati, and 20th century harmony. 

Audio

• Alex Cline's Band of the Moment
• Bennie Maupin and Dolphyana
• Billy Childs Jazz-Chamber Ensemble
• Dave Douglas & Brass Ecstasy
• Jesse Sharps The Gathering with Dwight Trible
• Larry Goldings Trio
• Larry Karush
• Live Painting
• Motoko Honda & Oguri
• Plays Monk
• Satoko Fujii Four
• The Nels Cline Singers with Jeff Parker
• Wayne Horvitz Gravitas Quartet