{"title":"Michel Petrucciani","description":"\u003cp\u003eMichel Petrucciani was born in Orange in the Vaucluse on December 28, 1962, to Italian parents in a family that played jazz as a matter of course: his father Antoine a guitarist, his brothers Philippe on guitar and Louis on bass. He was born with osteogenesis imperfecta, a genetic condition causing brittle bones and restricted growth that left him unable to walk and standing around three feet tall. His doctors told the family he would not survive past twenty. He saw Duke Ellington on television at four and switched from drums to piano. He never went to school. He stayed in his room and practised up to ten hours a day, was performing professionally at local jazz festivals at thirteen, and was working with Kenny Clarke by fifteen. In 1982, aged nineteen, he moved to California and talked saxophonist Charles Lloyd, who had been in self-imposed retirement from music, into coming back to perform. They toured Europe and recorded \"Montreux 82.\" He moved to New York shortly after. The solo album \"100 Hearts\" (Concord, 1984) won the Grand Prix du Disque in France. Blue Note signed him, Bruce Lundvall calling him the owner of the greatest right hand he had ever heard in the business. Seven Blue Note albums followed between 1986 and 1994, including \"Power of Three\" (1986) recorded at Montreux with Wayne Shorter and Jim Hall, and \"Michel Plays Petrucciani\" (1987), an album of his own compositions. He was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in 1994. He was thirty-one. He won the Prix Django Reinhardt. He joked that he had been told he would not live past twenty and had already outlasted Charlie Parker, who died at thirty-four. He died at Beth Israel Hospital in Manhattan on January 6, 1999, aged thirty-six. He is buried at Pere Lachaise, next to Chopin.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"michel-petrucciani-power-of-three-blue-note-tone-poet-series-180g-vinyl-lp","title":"Michel Petrucciani - Power of Three (Blue Note Tone Poet Series 180g Vinyl LP)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMichel Petrucciani featuring Jim Hall and Wayne Shorter - \u003cem\u003ePower of Three\u003c\/em\u003e | Vinyl LP - 2026 Blue Note Tone Poet Series Reissue (BT-85133, all-analog mastering by Kevin Gray, 180g pressing at RTI)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eA one-night summit between three masters\u003c\/strong\u003e, recorded live at the Montreux Jazz Festival on July 14, 1986, with Petrucciani on piano, Jim Hall on guitar and Wayne Shorter on tenor and soprano saxophone\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBlue Note Tone Poet Series reissue\u003c\/strong\u003e, supervised by Joe Harley, mastered all-analog from the original tapes by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio, pressed on 180g vinyl at RTI with a Stoughton Printing tip-on jacket\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAn unusual piano-guitar-saxophone trio\u003c\/strong\u003e, alternating between duo performances (Petrucciani and Hall) and trio pieces with Shorter joining on three of the five tracks\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMichel Petrucciani was twenty-three when this concert was recorded and had already led eleven dates as a leader. Producer Mary Ann Topper had paired him with Jim Hall in late 1985, and the chemistry was immediate. A piano-guitar duo is already a delicate format. Adding Wayne Shorter's saxophone to three of the five pieces here could easily have tipped the balance, but the opposite happens. \"Limbo\", Shorter's composition, opens the album with Shorter on tenor, and the three musicians find a way to occupy the same harmonic space without crowding each other, Hall's warm, clean tone sitting between Petrucciani's percussive attack and Shorter's longer lines. \"Careful\", a Hall composition, strips back to the duo, and the interplay is remarkable, each musician comping behind the other's solos with a sensitivity that sounds like years of partnership rather than months. \"Morning Blues\", Petrucciani's own piece, closes Side A with Shorter on soprano saxophone, the thinner reed cutting through the piano and guitar texture in a way that opens the sound up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSide B gives both tracks room to stretch. \"In a Sentimental Mood\" runs over twelve minutes as a Petrucciani and Hall duo, the Ellington ballad played with patience and an attention to dynamics that rewards the length. Petrucciani was a lifelong Ellington devotee, later recording an entire album of his music, and the affection is audible here. \"Bimini\", Hall's calypso-inflected closer, brings Shorter back on tenor for ten minutes that swing harder than anything else on the record, the three musicians trading phrases over a rhythmic pulse that Petrucciani drives from the piano. Shorter later said the album title came from a science fiction novel he was reading at the time. David Rubinson produced, with Topper co-producing, and Dave Richards recorded the concert at Mountain Studios.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis Tone Poet edition was supervised by Joe Harley, mastered all-analog by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio, with lacquers cut by Gray, and pressed on 180g vinyl at Record Technology Incorporated. The Stoughton Printing tip-on jacket reproduces Edouard Curchod's cover photography. A double-sided insert carries Syd Schwartz's new liner notes alongside Fernando Gonzales' original notes from 1986.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blue Note","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44232534261819,"sku":null,"price":90.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/3203\/3339\/files\/2000x2000bb_40848c5f-bb60-4a0c-b4f8-b76dffe81a27.webp?v=1789848609"}],"url":"https:\/\/lushliferecords.com.au\/collections\/michel-petrucciani.oembed","provider":"Lush Life Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}