I also saw the French avant-garde pianist Jean-Michel Pilc when I was in Paris last May, playing solo for a rapt audience at Sunset, a club on Rue des Lombards, down the street from the Duc du Lombards. His CD “Follow Me” is very much like that session and I recommend his trio album “Welcome Home,” too.
His playing is somewhere between Jaki Byard and Cecil Taylor, more structured than the latter, with the more obvious classical overtones common to a lot of European jazz artists. But I think he could hold his own in a stride cutting contest as well.
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