Eric Legnini: Trippin' | CD review

(Discograph)Belgian pianist Eric Legnini (who plays London's Pizza Express on February 10) is part of a jazz-funk piano lineage that goes back to Ramsey Lewis, so there are plenty of trill-packed licks on this album. The idiom dictates the rules, so on the funkier tracks Legnini mostly goes where you expect him to, but he does it with a relish and fluidity of phrasing that has plenty of charm, and drummer Franck Agulhon whips the group along with the spirited application of someone who hasn't he...

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