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Ezequiel "Chino" Piazza
Why Tom Piazza Matters
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All About Jazz
It was one of those Jazzfest moments of perfect grace. The Carolina Chocolate Drops launched into the Blind Willie Johnson song “City of Refuge," and there, on an aisle seat, clapping along and rocking out, was music writer Tom Piazza. It was as if the Chocolate Drops were singing just for him, right to him, not knowing his book of the same title was coming four months in the future. It was a moment of blessing, the kind New Orleans ...
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Pianist Meddy Gerville Releases "Jazz Amwin" with Horacio El Negro Hernandez, Dominique Di-Piazza, and Jean-Marie Ecay
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All About Jazz
Reunion Island pianist Meddy Gerville is pleased to announce the release of his new album Jazz Amwin featuring Grammy award winner Horacio El Negro Hernandez on drums, French bass player Dominique Di-Piazza, Jean-Marie Ecay on guitar and Meddy Gerville (piano, vocal).
This album perfectly illustrates Gerville's artistic quest of a fusion between jazz, its sophisticated harmonies, creative freedom and the swing and complex rhythms of Maloya, the “blues made in Reunion."
Performer Bios
Born on Reunion Island in 1972, Meddy ...
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