Mathis Picard: Live At The Museum

Pianist Mathis Picard delivers a wide ranging solo concert at the National Jazz Museum In Harlem for this 2019 recording. His touch is strong and confident, with a heart for stride, as evidenced in two songs by Willie “The Lion” Smith, but he takes these tunes and adds modern modalities to a rich effect. Likewise, he is clever and clear on John Lewis’ “The Creation Of The World” and dramatic in an extroverted take of Bix Beiderbecke’s “In A Mist”. His left had is strong on “Like, Blue” and classy for “Earthalude”. Impressionist mists are created on the flowing “Clouds” and spacious breaths are between notes on the ebullient “ Le Biget”. Modern strides.

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