The David Arner Trio: Out/In the Open, 2007 Wednesday, November 2, 2011 Pianist David Arner is a musical voice that does not fit easily into the various schools of improvisation that are widely influential among the free school of players. He’s managed to forge a path that does not cross… Read more >>
Venue: Deep Listening Space (Kingston, NY) January 12, 2006 Attending this first concert of 2006 was an easy choice for me to make. It was the very idea of the duo performance of David Arner on piano and Michael Bisio on string bass that took me the distance from where I write here to where I… Read more >>
To jazz musicians who are well aware that there exists an underground history of the music they love, the names or Dwike Mitchell and Willie Ruff have great significance. No fanfare accompanies the all-too-infrequent release of their recordings, no “pick-hit” blurb shows up in People magazine or… Read more >>
David Arner in Concert Venue: Performing Arts Center (Rhinebeck, NY) December 26, 2003 – On the day after Christmas (how appropriate the date), David Arner gave a solo performance at the Performing Arts Center in Rhinebeck, NY. The spry, tall, thin, angular pianist walked on stage, bowed, sat… Read more >>
CD Title: Live from the Center Exercising both the inside and outside of the piano means that you are dealing with the entire instrument. It means that you are dealing with all of the piano’s dynamics. And discovering what is possible within the realm of possibilities which you know, as a… Read more >>
CD Title: Solo Piano Although David Arner’s SOLO PIANO, on Dogstar Records, has been released for awhile, it has recently come to my attention. Arner is a member of the audience at many of the concerts of improvised music which I attend. Based on this fact, I thought to find his music to listen… Read more >>
Susan Osberg’s Workwith Company performs “Ubiquitous Gestures & Found Object” As the ultra gentrification of Manhattan continues, “downtown” artists have responded with an amoeboid exodus into the hinterlands of Queens and Brooklyn, where lower overhead expenses enable venues to support… Read more >>
“David Arner has done what many have thought undoable. He has welded the formalism of a commanding technique to the wildness of Jazz and the seductiveness of creativity. The result is a musical ménage a-trois, that holds and transports listeners through the incredible maze of his seemingly… Read more >>
Arner as percussionist with Joakim Lartey and Steve Silverman Whether glissading over the keyboard or wailing on the balafon, David Arner is one of the Valley’s most consistently inventive and stimulating musical improvisors. This Saturday, October 16th , he’ll be joined by Futu Futu’s Joakim… Read more >>
Review of “Live from the Center” The Hudson Valley music community is certainly lucky to have David Arner. Besides being a supremely gifted pianist, the Port Ewen resident and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute jazz history professor has also been the curator of Kingston’s vital weekly New… Read more >>