Jazz Articles about Yanni

Yanni: A Tribute to Art Tatum

by Ken Dryden
April 1, 2005

Popular New Age keyboardist Yanni is almost impossible to avoid on television, whether performing soundtracks for various sports broadcasts or one of countless concerts that seem to be broadcast repeatedly on public TV stations. Though jazz fans have long ridiculed this best-selling artist's work, which has a tendency to be simultaneously showy, bombastic and vapid, the self-taught musician evidently has been secretly woodshedding on acoustic piano for some time, resulting in this startling tribute to the greatest jazz pianist of ...