Album Notes

This CD is over 72 minutes long, and contains a unique mix of Irish, Cape Breton, bluegrass, Jewish, old-time, ragtime, jazz, and French-Canadian tunes. Many of the tracks are solo piano, but a number of them have champion fiddler David Reiner and/or Berklee College of Music student and great fiddler Andy Reiner on fiddle. Recorded on an 1886 Steinway 7' grand piano.


Check out the mp3 samples here on CD Baby, as well as full length samples from the CD on various pages of his web site: www.EricEid-Reiner.com. His full bio and info on other musical projects can be found on those pages as well.


CD (and individual tracks) also available for purchase on iTunes, Rhapsody, MP3tunes, Napster, Mperia, MSNMusic, and many other digital music services!!! On iTunes at http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playListId=115245712




WHAT THEY'RE SAYING


"A talented pianist...No doubt Eric has every potential to make himself a name as a folk piano player."
- Michael Moll, FolkWorld


"Also from Massachusetts is pianist Eric Eid-Reiner,who has studied with Jacqueline Schwab and several other veterans of the New England folk-dance scene, and, based on his debut recording Grand Tour:Traditional Music on Piano, he's been a good student. This is a melodic, gracefully played collection of slow and midtempo piano instrumentals, many with fiddle joining in, drawn from sources as diverse as Turlough O'Carolan, Phil Cunningham, and Thelonious Monk, as well as a number of New England dance-music composers. There's a strong Scottish/Irish flavor, but Eid-Reiner also ably touches on jazz, ragtime, and Jewish liturgical music."
- Tom Nelligan, in "Dirty Linen" (a folk and world music magazine)


"Grand Tour this tour de force sure is. The styles and tunes covered here make a grand collection. This CD is so enormous in scope it must be covered with brevity. Suffice it to say that Eric Eid-Reiner is a genuis by virtue of his knowledge, a craftsman supreme by his playing, and an artist by his understanding. Of a musical family he certainly must have absorbed an enormous amount in his formative years.

"I particularly liked 'The Golden Tooth / Aidan's Waltz" and also the great 'Eternal Friendship / Angeline the Baker." Here is also a fine 'Tennessee Waltz' (an old standard my father liked), and 'Atholl Highlanders.' In the latter, as in several other spots his [family] comes in on instrumental accompaniment.

"This is a musical buffet, but of the first quality, as the artist here is first quality."

- Arthur Ketchen, Celtic Beat Magazine


"'Grand Tour: Traditional Music on Piano' is a beautiful presentation of a welcomed, diverse selection of melodies from many traditions. I consider this a breakthrough in the use of the piano as an instrument of communicating true emotion and reverence for the past, present day, and future in the language of music."
- Ed Berbaum (old-time fiddler)




ERIC'S CONTACT INFO

Web site... www.EricEid-Reiner

Email... frisbeeman2001@yahoo.com

Postal Mail... Eric Eid-Reiner - P.O. Box 750007 - Arlington Heights, MA 02475