Jazz Articles about Alberto Pibiri

About Alberto Pibiri

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Alberto Pibiri: Living His Jazz Dreamlife

by Schaen Fox
March 26, 2022

Alberto Pibiri is strongly influenced by Oscar Peterson as well as earlier virtuoso pianists, but has his own style. Happily, his lifelong goal was to settle here in the United States, but his kind of talent would shine and stand out anywhere. All About Jazz: Just where in Italy are you from? Alberto Pibiri: I'm from south Sardinia, the beautiful island below Corsica. My home town is called Cagliari. AAJ: When did you begin ...

Album Review

Professor Cunningham and His Old School: The Lockdown Blues

Read "The Lockdown Blues" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
February 25, 2021

Given the uncommon position in which the world found itself owing to the global coronavirus pandemic, it was only a matter of time before “socially distanced" albums such as this one, recorded by Australian-born “Professor" Adrian Cunningham's septet “in bedrooms around the world," in April 2020, were bound to emerge. More specifically, in bedrooms in NY state, Vitoria and Girona, Spain, which loosely qualifies as “around the world." The idea came to Cunningham during a socially-distanced stroll through New York's ...