Nikki Yeoh: Solo Gemini review – this gifted pianist's solo set was worth the wait

(Infinitum)This solo album from London pianist Nikki Yeoh has been a long time coming – Courtney Pine hired her back in the early 1990s, and she’s been an original, if elusive, composer/player ever since. Now she’s come out with the solo set that always seemed imminent. The mazey Six As 1, a left-hand hook varied first by darting chords and trills and then jangling, stretching-and-squeezing rhythm patterns, springs from a John Cage-inspired composition she wrote for six pian...

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