Michel Petrucianni: Both Worlds Live review – infectious, impetuous pleasure

(Dreyfus)Michel Petrucianni was the brilliant French jazz pianist who resisted brittle bone disease to amaze audiences worldwide until his death at 36 in 1999. These live takes from the North Sea jazz festival in his last year feature most of the international lineup that had made his earlier studio album Both Worlds, including American jazz-funk drums star Steve Gadd. Bob Brookmeyer’s intelligent arrangements continue to make a small band sound like a big one, but the concert setting mak...

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