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I Poeti del Piano Solo
JACKY TERRASSON
🇮🇹 Only Italian Date
Saturday, June 14, 2025
Terrazza Belvedere del Giardino Bardini*, h. 18:00
Jacky Terrasson is one of the most acclaimed talents who came to the fore on the international jazz scene at the turn of the 1980s and 1990s. He studied classical piano in Paris until he discovered his mother’s extensive collection of jazz records. At the age of nineteen, he left for the United States: a study period at Berklee in Boston and then a return to Paris, where he worked with Dee Dee Bridgewater, Barney Wilen and Ray Brown, among others.
The return to the USA is marked in 1993 by first prize at the prestigious “Thelonious Monk” competition in Washington. It is the prelude to a dazzling career that will take him in a few years to play on stages all over the world and sign for prestigious labels such as Blue Note, Concord Music, EmArcy, Impulse! and Universal Jazz France. In 2023, he founded Earth-Sounds, his own record label, with which he released the following year the album Moving On, his last studio work.
With a technically perfect style, Terrasson combines the European modernist tradition (listening to him, Debussy and Ravel may sometimes come to mind) and the high school of jazz piano improvisation, in line with a tradition that stretches from Art Tatum, via Bud Powell, Ahmad Jamal and Thelonious Monk, to Bill Evans. What is surprising in his playing are the sudden appearance of imaginative quotations and textures, a natural sense of rhythm and an uncommon dynamism.
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I Poeti del Piano Solo
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🎟️ Tickets at the door (if available): 25€ / 20€ for Under 25 UNIFI and Scuola di Musica di Fiesole
For the realization of I Poeti del Piano Solo festival thanks also to Villa Bardini, Anea Italia srl and Credem Euromobiliare Private Banking
*In case of bad weather, the concert will be hosted in Sala Vanni
