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This album is fantastic in its own way. Sure enough, Emerson's skill is shown remarkably in this large compilation of songs, even more so than with ELP (the piano improv)…

The Keith Emerson Band is Emerson's first self-assured musical statement since the legendary trio of Emerson, Lake & Palmer last disbanded in the mid-'90s. It marks a fresh start for one of the world's most admired keyboard wizards, in which he regains the musical focus his fans had missed. A few years into the new millennium, Emerson met Marc Bonilla, and the two hit it off so well that his motivation to write new compositions returned; the pair agreed to dive into the sounds that distinguished ELP in their prime…

A new concert film and album documenting the May 2016 tribute show honouring the late Keith Emerson…

The Keith Emerson Trio - The Keith Emerson Trio (2015) {Unissued 1963 rec}
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Jazz / Bop / Cool / Piano Trio / Jazz Blues

Long before Keith Emerson was a known name for his involvement with The Nice and with Emerson, Lake & Palmer (ELP), young Keith Merson had a Jazz Trio. According to him, seeing himself as a Jazz musician meant that he was "cool", but still unable to get a girlfriend though. The year is 1963 and the trio reharses at his mother's council house living room in Woking. They manage to get the money to record and cut 4 acetates, one was given to each member of the band and there was one spare copy used to try to get gigs. Fast forward to 2015 and this 4th. copy shows up at a boot sale. Upon hearing about the discovery, Keith Emerson agreed upon the release of the recordings. These recordings have never been for sale on CD before and have been lovingly restored. This release has the full approval of Keith Emerson.

Apparently, there is no explaining how the heavily edited DVD version of this 2008 concert actually made it out before this double CD of the entire show, but at least the CD set is out now. On Moscow, the Keith Emerson Band includes ace session guitarist, vocalist, and composer Marc Bonilla (who's toured before with Toy Matinee), bassist Travis Davis, and drummer Tony Pia, who, while currently a member of the Doobie Brothers, has also played with Edgar Winter and Brain Setzer. The program features numerous Emerson, Lake & Palmer nuggets (including a 35-plus-minute "Tarkus"), some brief Emerson originals (film cues from his soundtrack work), a pair of Bonilla pieces, and two co-writes between Bonilla and Emerson…

Off the Shelf is an interesting package of different recordings Keith has collected from over the years. Most of these have been bootlegged before but here you get them in a cleaned up nicely mastered package…

Rocker Keith Emerson composed and performed a number of soundtracks for European and Asian films in the early '80s, yet few of those films ever reached American audiences, and most of the soundtracks made brief appearances in the import sections of record stores. The music Emerson composed for this suspense/horror film features him almost exclusively on piano, backed by an orchestra conducted by Godfrey Salmon, building upon his main title theme…