Deborah Wyndham: Press

"An artist like Deborah only comes along once in a lifetime."

"Deborah Wyndham slices away the cookie-cutter syndrome which has often infected contemporary pianists...she can play with technical precision but it is the vibrant personality of her performances that stands out...she goes the extra mile to ensure that the music is given its own touch, drawing upon classical and jazz inspirations with the vivid imagination of a talented painter"

"blows me away...spellbinding"

"Wyndham never gives less than an inspired performance...with genuine emotion and succulent beauty."

"...radiates with the soulfulness of jazz...there is a crystalline elegance to her playing"

"Deborah Wyndham both soothes and electrifies the ear with her dynamic sense of rhythm and melody...This is not audio window dressing, but a soundtrack in sync with the pulse of human emotion...a spellbinding pianist"

"Ms. Wyndham plays with good dynamics...passion and emotion."

"'The Atmosphere' is a composition requiring the pianist to have advanced piano training. Deborah Wyndham does have the skills in composing. The execution of this composition shows off her expertise and abilities as a pianist."

"Wyndham’s newest venture is recording and promoting a five-song EP to debut her original piano music."

Deborah's album "Tenderly" is powerful, good medicine with a unique and mysterious quality in her style. She is a very talented practitioner of rhythmic bi-metric polymorphism. This means she plays in two time signatures (or meters) at once and her creativity is expressed by morphing (seamlessly transitioning) her emphasis between these two signatures and short segments of almost free form time. On one tune, I was stunned to hear a segment in which she was clearly maintaining three simultaneous time signatures (2/2, 4/4 and 12/8) while adding creative elements on top (trimetric polymorphism!!!). If there existed a sophisticated enough listener on the staff of the Guinness Book of World Records this might be one for the book!

She plays the melodies and chords (except for some arppegiation and embellishment tones) of all the tunes strait as written. Yet, the genius of her rhythm alone creates an amazing experience for the listener. The reason is, when a typical jazz style piano musical performance is given, within the first two measures of the composition being played by the performer, a tacit and subliminal understanding is established by the performer to the listener regarding time and meter. The performer will then engage in chordal and improvisational single note line expression (which can be very exciting). However, no further challenge to this rhythm agreement is made throughout the rest of the tune. She, however makes no simple deals regarding rhythm with the listener up front. She pulls them onto the Deborah Wyndham world of bi-metric polymorphic rhythm creativity and she doesn't need any edgy chords or lines! She does it to 'em with the rhythm alone and the intrinsic beauty of the original composition. This is why listening to her is unlike any other piano listening experience!!!

Deborah right now is playing at a very high level of skill and has not even cracked the lid on the tool box of the traditional strait jazz style pianist. The creative expression of almost all traditional jazz style pianists is in the domain of melodic and harmonic improvisation. The subtle and delicate rhythmic expression which is the hallmark of her playing is almost never heard as the primary mode of expression. In fact, there are probably very few chord and note mavens that could do it!!