NIGHT SHIFT (2005)
for solo piano
Fatrock Ink Music Publishers (catalog # 026-3502)
06/17/2006 at the home of Alan Goldman in Los Angeles, CA by Delores Stevens - piano
Gernot Wolfgang, COMMON GROUND, Albany Records TROY 854; Joanne Pearce Martin, BAREFOOT, Yarlung Records 79580
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More information about the recording of Night Shift on the album COMMON GROUND
More information about the recording of Night Shift on the album BAREFOOT
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Reviews:
“At almost ten minutes Gernot Wolfgang’s Night Shift is the longest of these [compositions on Joanne Pearce Martin’s CD Barefoot] and exploits elements of his jazz guitar background. Its qualities are elusive, always tasteful, and saturated with interesting harmonic shifts, rather than rhythmic devices. The overall effect is like a miniature tone poem that remains on the fringe of a dark but expressive world.”
Alan Becker, American Record Guide
” Night Shift, for solo piano, is a pleasant, wistful piece, an introductory lullaby leading into some nocturne-like passages … ”
Glyn Pursglove, Musicweb-International.com