To enter a nearly empty stage, walk into the spotlight in front of a keenly receptive audience, sit down and arrange your loose notes and then with bare hands tame beast of a Steinway grand piano that stands there waiting, is an exercise only the very best venture on.

Over the past two decades Craig Taborn had followed a steady and steep rising trajectory, and is now ubiquitous in the upper echelons of jazz. But even though we often hear him playing with others, Taborn has developed a small and meaningful catalog under his own name. Junk Magic from 2004 marked a watershed in the use of electronic music in American jazz, and the solo record Avenging Angel on ECM placed Craig Taborn shoulder to shoulder with Paul Bley and Keith Jarrett

Craig Taborn – piano