
Throughout the remainder of the 90's, Trythall turned his attention towards a number of interrelated projects. As a pianist, his concerts were increasingly devoted to the American repertoire created by composers such as Ives, Cowell and Copland, but also "cross over" composers such as Joplin, Gershwin, Chick Corea and Keith Jarrett.
Concerned with documenting his work as a pianist, he recorded a critically acclaimed CD of Charles Ives' piano music released in 1996 (Excerpt: Charles Ives: Hawthorne, Concord Sonata, Mp3 is complete)
The complete CD is available at: Amazon Tower Records
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In the following 2 years, he re-transcribed and recorded 17 of "Jelly Roll" Morton's piano works. (Examples: Ferdinand Jelly Roll Morton: Finger Buster) .
RealAudio
(272K) Mp3
(1.4MB, Complete)![]()
The complete CD is available at: CD
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Sheet Music for Jelly Roll Blues
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As a composer he wrote a series of African-American influenced works - transcribing recordings of Haitian drumming for prepared piano and creating a Suite of five works based on African-American keyboard styles.
In 2002 Trythall completed Out of Bounds, a CD containing "remixed" versions of piano music from the 80's.
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In 2004, Trythall completed a work for Xylophone, Vibraphone and Marimba (two players). This percussion quartet, Sweet, Sweet Memories, is based on the popular song "Memories Are Made of This" which was co-authored in the '50s by Terry Gilkyson, Richard Dehr and Frank Miller (the "Easy Riders"). Formally this is a set of variations concluding with a free fantasy. Technically it is a virtuoso percussion work for mallet instruments. Emotionally it is a full scale tone poem which uses the repetitions and alterations of this well-known melody to trace the gradual evolution of love and fulfillment over a lifetime, coming full-circle to that final resort of happiness - that denial of the ticking clock on the wall: our memories.
Sweet,
Sweet Memories: Mp3
(11
MB, Complete performance)
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In the near future, he plans to re-master his earlier electronic works digitally and to complete a CD devoted to his works for percussion.