LIZ STORY REVIEWS

_Here is what people are saying about   Liz Story:

“Her marvelously lissome performance and compositional style place her right up there with Keith Jarrett and John Jarvis… Rhythmically and melodically, there is a wonderful ebb and flow to her compositions… Story has an extraordinary gift for creating music that is at once thoughtful and moving.”
-People Magazine

“…Elevated and technically accomplished (music)… wide ranging in their stylistic borrowings. One hears echoes of Chopin, Debussy, Gershwin, Scott Joplin, the minimalist side of Keith Jarret and even Joni Mitchell in her compositions. But the strongest underlying influence Ms. Story displayed was that of Spanish folk and classical music… her pieces suggest the austere, formal flavor of Flamenco music and its’ keyboard extensions in the classical jazz of Chick Corea… a resolute percussive edge, eschewing syncopation and swinging rhythms to give each song a scrupulous sense of compositional unity.”
-The New York Times

“A personal style centered in ringing chordal passages, but still graced with poise.”
-Billboard

“Story is a master of her chosen language. Her compositional style has been compared to that of Keith Jarret and John Jarvis… It does not require a linguistics expert to decipher the language Story so eloquently speaks.”
-Jazziz

“Liz Story is one of our more soulful pianists, her playing redolent of youthful angst and weltschmerz… with soaring sonorities evoking a romanticism that is delicate and pensive, rife with the sorrow of first heartbreak, before the scar tissue… She’s a storyteller, a compelling one.”
-The Boston Globe

“…arresting. Story displayed not only a graceful command of the keyboard but also a thoughtful improvisor’s gift.”
-The Chicago Tribune

“Liz Story: closer to Liszt than Jarret. Moods ranged from a stately “Church of Trees” to the bouncy “Frog Park”, a carefree romp that Story tempered with dark, low-pitched rumbling.”
-The Los Angeles Times

“Story’s piano says volumes without uttering a single spoken syllable.”
-The Birmingham News

“…contemplative pauses, whispery trills and articulate right-hand figures that betray classical training.”
-The Washington Post

“In the glut of solo pianists that followed in the wake of George Winston, Liz Story has remained both emotionally complex and harmonically austere,”
- John Diliberto, Producer/Host of the nationally syndicated radio program, “Echoes.”

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