Gending For a Spirit Rising
(Global Coolant 02) 2-CD set
David Lopato and Global Coolant:
David Lopato, Marty Ehrlich, Mark Feldman, Lucas Pino, Bill Ware, William Moersch, I.M. Harjito, Erik Friedlander, Ratzo Harris, Tom Rainey, Michael Sarin, Anne Stebinger, Marc Perlman, john Hadfield
Ladrang, This Life, Jalan Jiwa, Gendhing, Beboppin’ with Bella, Jakshi, Suite 911
“Unlike anything you are likely to hear this year (or any year). Lopato’s music is the genuine article.”
4 1/2 stars – Downbeat Magazine
Many Moons
(Global Coolant 01)
David Lopato – solo piano
Swing Trades, Inside You, Fly Brook, Unrequited Love, No Visa, Reflexology, Brooklyn, The Big Bad Wolf Ain’t So Bad After All, Wishing Willie Well, African Village, Piano Roll I, Peace March
“Lopato’s performances are as impressive and strikingly individual as his compositions, as demonstrated on “The Big Bad Wolf Ain’t So Bad After All”, a rollicking and striding tour de force performance suggesting influences from Tatum and Ellington.”
Cadence Magazine
The Standard Line
(Unity UTY 133)
David Lopato and David Mott
David Lopato – piano
David Mott – Baritone sax
Body and Soul, Unrequited Love, Wind Bells, Earth, Once So Blue…, Texas Little, No Visa, Stop Boogie! Stop Shuffle!, Nostalgia, Are Your Heads Aligned?
Inside / Outside
(Enemy 132-2)
David Lopato
David Lopato – piano
Mark Helias – bass
Gerry Hemingway – drums
Magdalena, Out of Somewhere, This Life, Gonbosco, Y.B.F.S., Reflexology
Giant Mbira
(Lumina L009)
David Lopato – solo piano
Magdalena, Fast, One for Olivier for Muhal, Dear Sphere, Blues for Bley, Gazing at Miss V, Giant Mbira
Lopato/Donica/Bowman Trio
David Lopato – piano, keyboards
Jim Donica – string bass
Chris Bowman – drums