Tigran: A Fable – review

(Emarcy)Tigran Hamasyan is a 25-year-old Armenian-born pianist brought up in LA. He has already won some big jazz-piano prizes, and the fact he looks like a young Bob Dylan probably won't do his prospects any harm, either. Listening to his account of Someday My Prince Will Come on this mostly solo set – a mix of Chick Corea's gliding touch and his own darker melodic atmosphere – it isn't hard to tell why Hamasyan floored the judges. That's the only jazz standard on this set, however, the res...

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