In the late 1980s and early 1990s, critics, musicians, and jazz enthusiasts began to recognize the originality of this pianist. Over the years, the praise has only grown more insistent. Copland has continued recording with longtime collaborators such as John Abercrombie and Gary Peacock, while gradually expanding his circle to include highly regarded creative musicians who admire his unique technique and deep sense of harmony.
With a prolific catalog, averaging three to four albums per year, he reached the end of the first decade of the new millennium as one of the greatest figures in jazz piano. But he is more than just a musician—he is a painter, a poet, a storyteller without words, capable of transforming the atmosphere of a room with a ballad and sending audiences into a trance-like state through his music.
