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Home » Jazz Articles » Album Review » Irene Schweizer: Piano Solo: Prelude To A Kiss And More By View read count It might be a touch of hyperbole to say the world wasn't ready for Swiss pianist Irène Schweizer's 1986 recording Piano Solo: Prelude To A Kiss And More. Yet listening to it some 40 years later, that may well be your first thought.

Home » Jazz Articles » Album Review » Satoko Fujii Orchestra Kobe: After The Storm By View read count Pianist, composer and orchestra leader Satoko Fujii tends to resist comparisons between her career and that of Duke Ellington. The analogy, however, is difficult to avoid. At a time when maintaining a large ensemble is an increasingly rare undertaking, Fujii has led an astonishing number of them.

Home » Jazz Articles » Album Review » Bob Nell & Michael Bisio Trios: Trios: We Are Here By View read count Don't be misled by the adjective naïve when describing the collaboration between pianist Bob Nell and bassist Michael Bisio. Their recording We Are Here is hardly "naïve" in the sense of being inexperienced or unsophisticated. Rather, it embodies the word's more generous meaning: music that is natural, unforced and free of affectation.