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604.0. "Michel Petrucciani" by STAR::ARANDA (Rem Aranda (DTN) 381-1238 MS:ZK01-3/J33) Mon Jan 12 1987 21:21

    Any Michel Petrucciani fans out there? Petrucciani is a french-born
    pianist (now living in New York) who might well be the best new
    Jazz piano player around (he's 24 years old). His vigorous but
    disciplined style is reminiscent of Oscar Peterson to me.
    
    I've grown very fond of a Blue Note DDD of his, "Pianism" (Blue
    Note CDP 7 46295 2), with Palle Danielsson (bass) and Eliot Zigmund
    (drums) (collectively, The Michel Petrucciani Trio), that contains
    the following selections:
    
    	The Prayer (M. Petrucciani)	Our Tune (M. Petrucciani)
    	Face's Face (M. Petrucciani)	Night and Day (C. Porter)
    	Here's That Rainy Day (J. Van Heusen)
    	Regina (M. Petrucciani)
    
    Regina was written for Elis Regina, mentioned in an earlier note
    of mine regarding Brazilian jazz. Funny thing, it sort of sounds
    like her music, in the way that Oscar Peterson's "A Jazz Portrait
    of Frank Sinatra" sounds like Sinatra.
    
    The music's great, the recording fine, and the liner notes complete
    and amusing. They include the history of Petrucciani's seven foot
    Steinway B grand (used for recording the session)- it seems that
    a physician who "found" Rashneesh decided to sell it along with
    all his many wordly posessions. The enlightened doc placed an ad
    in the paper along the lines of "Steinway B for sale, cheap", and
    after a big drive Petrucciani acquired his most prized possession.
    Gives you faith that there's some good in everything.
    
    -Rem