WHAT MUSICIANS AND CRITICS SAY
"Joe Chindamo is an amazing pianist. That is a given. He also happens to be an equally gifted composer with a unique voice. He is a important Australian musician who deserves wide recognition and support." Richard Tognetti
"Joe Chindamo is closer to the model of the complete musician of Bach’s time – composer, performer, improviser – than classical music’s modern custodians. Chindamo's range of reference is encyclopaedic and his art tender; his virtuosity never hectors, but disarms. It is music of seduction." Anna Goldsworthy, Pianist, Author
“He has more facility on the piano than you could ever wish for, his energy is boundless, he is forever inventive and never settles for the obvious (unless it’s the best). Never ask Joe for an idea unless you are prepared for an avalanche of creativity, every time... The reason Joe Chindamo arrests you when you hear him is his sheer love of what he does, a love that sparkles from every note.” James Morrison
" I have admired Joe Chindamo's musicianship for many years. His is a great musical mind with wit, subtlety, virtuosity and flair…" Paul Grabowsky
“Joe Chindamo is an extremely gifted world class musician – an outstanding and sensitive pianist and a brilliant composer and arranger. His ability to reinvent all styles of music so that we hear it completely anew is true genius.” Tania De Jong AM Director of Creative Universe and Opera Singer.
“There are some pianists who dazzle with their touch and technique. There are others who knock you out with their restless creativity or erudition. Then there are those who seduce you by evoking emotions of vulnerability, joy and rage, playing as if they are telling you a story. What makes Joe Chindamo different is that he is one of the few who can integrate all these qualities.” Leon Gettler, The Age
“Throughout, his approach is one of unpretentious elegance under-scored by superlative technique.” Jack Bowers Cadence Magazine, New York
“He has that Bill Evans knack for bringing unlikely material into his own orbit.”
Michael Cuscana, Blue Note reissue producer USA
“Joe Chindamo is literally in a ‘etat de grace’ (state of grace) in this recording [live at Umbria Jazz 05] ........he reaches a summit in that he belongs to the realm of jazz piano greats for whom virtuosity is placed at the service of extraordinary musicality and art....... Finally, the choice of songs and their presentation make this recording one of the great releases of 2005. BRAVISSIMO” Yves Sportis Le Jazz Hot Magazine, France.
“Meldau is a great jazz pianist, we all know, but the latest discovery at the Umbria Festival is [a pianist] called Chindamo....He [Chindamo] tranforms and mixes his Tatumesque technique with other ways of thinking about the piano... perfecting a pianism which is rich and delicate, fluid and animated, deconstructed and recomposed with sharp intellegence; all the while, making it relevant to today by aligning itself with modernity”Aldo Gianolio L’unita, Italy
“The tenderness and delicacy of his ballad playing, reinforces my opinion that he has no peer as a balladeer in this country [Australia]” Kevin Jones 2MBS magazine, Aust.
“A virtuoso in the tradition of Peterson (and his idol, Art Tatum), Chindamo demonstrates here that technique isn’t only about speed and accuracy, it’s also to do with touch and expression....It’s a triumphant display that should appeal to any fan of classic piano jazz.” Adrian Jackson, Rhythms Magazine and The Bulletin, Aust.
"Joe Chindamo is an amazing pianist. That is a given. He also happens to be an equally gifted composer with a unique voice. He is a important Australian musician who deserves wide recognition and support." Richard Tognetti
"Joe Chindamo is closer to the model of the complete musician of Bach’s time – composer, performer, improviser – than classical music’s modern custodians. Chindamo's range of reference is encyclopaedic and his art tender; his virtuosity never hectors, but disarms. It is music of seduction." Anna Goldsworthy, Pianist, Author
“He has more facility on the piano than you could ever wish for, his energy is boundless, he is forever inventive and never settles for the obvious (unless it’s the best). Never ask Joe for an idea unless you are prepared for an avalanche of creativity, every time... The reason Joe Chindamo arrests you when you hear him is his sheer love of what he does, a love that sparkles from every note.” James Morrison
" I have admired Joe Chindamo's musicianship for many years. His is a great musical mind with wit, subtlety, virtuosity and flair…" Paul Grabowsky
“Joe Chindamo is an extremely gifted world class musician – an outstanding and sensitive pianist and a brilliant composer and arranger. His ability to reinvent all styles of music so that we hear it completely anew is true genius.” Tania De Jong AM Director of Creative Universe and Opera Singer.
“There are some pianists who dazzle with their touch and technique. There are others who knock you out with their restless creativity or erudition. Then there are those who seduce you by evoking emotions of vulnerability, joy and rage, playing as if they are telling you a story. What makes Joe Chindamo different is that he is one of the few who can integrate all these qualities.” Leon Gettler, The Age
“Throughout, his approach is one of unpretentious elegance under-scored by superlative technique.” Jack Bowers Cadence Magazine, New York
“He has that Bill Evans knack for bringing unlikely material into his own orbit.”
Michael Cuscana, Blue Note reissue producer USA
“Joe Chindamo is literally in a ‘etat de grace’ (state of grace) in this recording [live at Umbria Jazz 05] ........he reaches a summit in that he belongs to the realm of jazz piano greats for whom virtuosity is placed at the service of extraordinary musicality and art....... Finally, the choice of songs and their presentation make this recording one of the great releases of 2005. BRAVISSIMO” Yves Sportis Le Jazz Hot Magazine, France.
“Meldau is a great jazz pianist, we all know, but the latest discovery at the Umbria Festival is [a pianist] called Chindamo....He [Chindamo] tranforms and mixes his Tatumesque technique with other ways of thinking about the piano... perfecting a pianism which is rich and delicate, fluid and animated, deconstructed and recomposed with sharp intellegence; all the while, making it relevant to today by aligning itself with modernity”Aldo Gianolio L’unita, Italy
“The tenderness and delicacy of his ballad playing, reinforces my opinion that he has no peer as a balladeer in this country [Australia]” Kevin Jones 2MBS magazine, Aust.
“A virtuoso in the tradition of Peterson (and his idol, Art Tatum), Chindamo demonstrates here that technique isn’t only about speed and accuracy, it’s also to do with touch and expression....It’s a triumphant display that should appeal to any fan of classic piano jazz.” Adrian Jackson, Rhythms Magazine and The Bulletin, Aust.