If you like metaphor, and I do, the more fanciful the better, I imagine Paolo and Stephanie painting the practice room in their house. And that musical expansiveness continues on this CD set. Johnson (and Willie “the Lion” Smith and a young Dick Hyman) play. If you lived in New York in 1944-5, you could go to hear the Erroll Garner Trio (with John Simmons and Doc West) playing on “Swing Street,” that block of Fifty-Second Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues, then you could walk to the nearest IRT Broadway line, drop a nickel in the turnstile, and ride down to Greenwich Village, the Pied Piper or the Riviera, to hear James P. And history is on the side of expansiveness, not contraction. How long can a mixed marriage last? Is there couples’ counselling for duo-pianists?”īut it’s all piano jazz, rollicking, soulful, pensive. Johnson, the other doing the same with Paolo playing Erroll Garner and think, “Those crazy kids. Some listeners who know the glowing pianistics of Stephanie Trick and Paolo Alderighi will look at their new double-CD release, one disc celebrating Stephanie playing James P. Stephanie and Paolo, by Nicola Stranieri.
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