After posting this video of Stefano Bollani earlier this week, I was reminded of this gem off his first solo piano album with ECM, which is titled, appropriately enough, Piano Solo. I’m not aware of the Beach Boys getting too many jazz treatments, but given the complexities and richness of much of Brian Wilson’s work, I’m now wondering why not. …
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Here’s a wonderful clip of two of my favorite musicians playing a duet together at a jazz festival in Italy. Someone once called the clarinet “an ill wind that nobody blows good”, but Anat Cohen disproves that theory. She came to Columbia, MO a couple of years ago and was just delightful. As you can see from this clip, she …