Jazz Articles about Marian Petrescu

About Marian Petrescu

Album Review

Marian Petrescu: Thrivin' - Live at the Jazz Standard

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 12, 2010

Ogni tanto, non capita spesso, ci sono produttori americani che investono su musicisti europei. È il caso di Marian Petrescu, pianista rumeno che risiede in Finlandia. Al suo fianco troviamo un compagno di label, Andreas Öberg, chitarrista svedese che sa fare valere il proprio valore pure nel mainstream ortodosso. A completare il gruppo, ci mancherebbe, una ritmica americana composta da David Fink al contrabbasso e Mark McLean alla batteria. I quattro riportano alla memoria i momenti piú emozionanti dei gruppi ...

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Album Review

Marian Petrescu: Thrivin'

Read "Thrivin'" reviewed by Larry Taylor

by Larry Taylor
July 2, 2010

Called “The Horowitz of the Piano" by French jazz great Martial Solal (under whom he studied) pianist Marian Petrescu's dazzling technique--reminiscent of the late Oscar Peterson--is on full display with Thrivin', recorded at New York's Jazz Standard. Petrescu was born in Bucharest, Romania, in 1970. Coming from a large family of musicians, he began playing piano at age 4 and went on to study classical and jazz in Sweden and Finland. He made his jazz debut at ...