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Article: Album Review

Marilyn Crispell, Anders Jormin: Memento

by Neil Duggan
March 13, 2026

US pianist Marilyn Crispell and Swedish bassist Anders Jormin filter their decades of musical experience and improvisational instinct into Memento, their debut duo recording. Combining original compositions with four freely created pieces, the album focuses on the universal themes of memory and loss. Crispell, recently honored with a 2025 National Endowment for the Arts ...

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Fred Hersch: Alive... And Kicking

by Jiaowei Hu
September 6, 2023

Few musicians have shaped jazz with such elegant, instinctive, and intimate variations as Fred Hersch. Constantly. Over four decades, life's ups and downs have not stopped him from coming back, time and again, to performing live. No word other than “alive" can be more suitable for the pianist, and it is no coincidence that he chose ...

About Silvan Zingg

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Musician

Silvan Zingg

Born: March 19, 1973

The internationally acclaimed Swiss Boogie Woogie & Blues pianist Silvan Zingg from Lugano started improvising on his mother’s piano as a little boy. His repertoire leaves nothing to be desired: from lively Boogie Woogie and sensitive Blues to classical Jazz and Swing – all played with lightness, improvisation, a lot of passion and wit in a brilliant quality. This is what characterizes the piano playing of the “Boogie Woogie Ambassador from Switzerland”, as the international press calls him. At the age of 18 he performed at the “Masters of Boogie Woogie Night” in Charleston, South Carolina