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Emanuel Ax, piano...
After intermission, Ax joined the orchestra for a predictably fine performance of Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major. Brahms did not begin composing this concerto in four movements as a symphony, as he had with his first concerto, but the piece lacks none of the grandeur of the symphonic form...
...Jazz piano is so glutted with talent these days that it's hard to get through a week without another new prodigy popping up somewhere. With flying-fingered young virtuosos like Marcus Roberts, Cyrus Chestnut and Eric Reed trying to outdo one another on showy new solo albums and jostling for attention in nightclubs from Bourbon Street to Greenwich Village, competition on the keyboards is more intense than it has been in years. In the midst of all this musical gunslinging, it would be easy to overlook Jacky Terrasson, a newcomer from Paris. But that would be a mistake...
Terrasson, 29, comes to the game with a well-formed sound that relies on inventiveness and vision rather than pure razzle-dazzle. Equipped with a degree in classical piano from the Parisian conservatory Lycee Lamartine, which he topped off with a year of jazz studies at Boston's rigorous Berklee College of Music, Terrasson mixes a thorough knowledge of the jazz canon--from Cole Porter to Duke Ellington to Miles Davis--with a rich harmonic sense and a carefully reined iconoclasm. On his debut album, Jacky Terrasson (Blue Note), he squeezes fresh insight and nuance out of fossilized tunes like...
Haden had religion. He had the history, he had the soul, and as he listened to Jones' serene and supple piano, his eyes closed, his head went back and he started playing a bass line. Without his instrument. Scatting, scampering around the surprising progression of Jones' notes, raising a joyful noise...