Solo Live (Michel Petrucciani album)

Solo Live
Live album by Michel Petrucciani
Released 1998 (1998)
Recorded 27 February 1997
Venue Frankfurt, Germany
Genre Jazz
Label Dreyfus
Michel Petrucciani chronology
Conférence de Presse Vol. 2 (1995) Solo Live
(1998)		 Trio in Tokyo
(1999)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic [1]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz [2]

Solo Live is a solo piano album by Michel Petrucciani, recorded in 1997 at a concert in Frankfurt, Germany, and released on the Dreyfus label in 1998.[2][3] A double-CD version of the concert was released in 2007, under the title Piano Solo: The Complete Concert in Germany, and featured 20 tracks instead of the original release's 11.[4]

Music

Most of the tracks are Petrucciani originals. "Looking Up" is "overtly optimistic and inherently hopeful"; "Home" is a "statement of warmth and comfort"; "Brazilian Like" is "orchestral and melodic to the point at which the tune remains in one's head long after its conclusion".[1]

Reception

The AllMusic review awarded it four and a half stars and described it as "Petrucciani's lasting solo gift to the jazz world".[1] The Penguin Guide to Jazz gave it a maximum four stars and added it to the suggestsed Core Collection list.[2]

Track listing

All tracks written by Petrucciani, unless stated otherwise.

  1. "Looking Up" – 4:24
  2. "Besame Mucho" (Consuelo Velázquez) – 4:03
  3. "Rachid" – 2:22
  4. "Chloe Meets Gershwin" – 4:08
  5. "Home" – 3:40
  6. "Brazilian Like" – 3:07
  7. "Little Peace In C For U" – 4:12
  8. "Romantic But Not Blue" – 3:22
  9. "Trilogy In Blois" – 11:29
  10. "Caravan" (Irving Mills, Duke Ellington, Juan Tizol) – 10:09
  11. "She Did It Again" / "Take The A Train" (Billy Strayhorn) / "She Did It Again" – 4:53

References

  1. 1 2 3 Bartolini, Brian "Solo Live: review" AllMusic. Retrieved April 30, 2013.
  2. 1 2 3 Cook, Richard and Morton, Brian (2008) The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.), Penguin, p. 1160.
  3. ↑ "Michel Petrucciani: Solo Live" Dreyfus Records (in French).
  4. ↑ "Michel Petrucciani: Complete concert in Germany (2CD)" Dreyfus Records.
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