Jason Rebello: Held review – veteran pianist delivers fresh jazz gymnastics

(Edition)Pianist Jason Rebello’s years with Sting and Jeff Beck were sometimes portrayed as a big loss to a UK scene on which he had made such an impact as a wunderkind in the early 90s. But on the evidence of Rebello’s latest personal statement since his pop retirement, those years never blunted his improv reflexes. In fact, they refined the songwriter’s ear that gives such broad appeal to a fine solo piano album, all original songs apart from the Beatles’ Blackbird....

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