Enrico Pieranunzi – review

Vortex, LondonHe came to town in the wake of the London jazz festival, but though Roman pianist Enrico Pieranunzi was sharing the Vortex jazz club with an audience of 70 or so rather than headlining the Barbican or South Bank, his technique, imagination and European prestige ought by rights to have made him a big star. Pieranunzi uncannily recalls the late Bill Evans in his jazz adaptation of a formidable classical technique (he has written an admired study of Evans' methods), and in the elegant...

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