Michel Petrucciani’s live album ‘Power Of Three,’ recorded with Jim Hall and Wayne Shorter, is being reissued in Blue Note’s ...

The jazz artist suffered from a condition that rendered his bones brittle and his stature three feet tall. But in the '80s and '90s, he still... Michel Petrucciani was the first important jazz pianist ...

In this program from 1987, Petrucciani, then 23, performs his own tune, "The Prayer," and host Marian McPartland joins him on "My Funny Valentine." Michel Petrucciani On Piano Jazz Michel Petrucciani ...

Michel Petrucciani's Kuumbwa is the type of release that reminds us why live jazz recordings still matter. This is not a vault-cleaning exercise, nor just a historical note. Recorded at the Kuumbwa ...

Small man, big talentI had not heard of Michel Petrucciani before I started making a film about him; nor had I made a documentary for 25 years. But every documentary is a journey of discovery, and I ...

Michel Petrucciani was the first important jazz pianist I ever saw live. In retrospect, it's hard to believe that he would make it to Guéret, my tiny hometown in the middle of France. But in 1992, on ...

Recorded live on May 11, 1987, at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center in Santa Cruz, California, this album catches pianist Michel Petrucciani during an inspired phase of his career. It was not his first visit to ...

Michel Petrucciani, the French piano virtuoso who died young in 1999, was a great piano talent who always sounded in love with the instrument and the sound of jazz. Petrucciani, who suffered from a ...

Born with the genetic disease osteogenesis imperfecta, he only stood at three feet. But with hands unaffected by his disease and an extraordinary talent, Michel Petrucciani is one of the greatest ...

Exactly 30 years after his “Van Morrison in Ireland,” English helmer Michael Radford (“Il Postino“) returns to almost-divine music and his nonfiction roots with “Michel Petrucciani,” which chronicles ...

It’s always a labour of love to make a jazz film, a jazz documentary even more so - especially when the musician subject is no longer around to promote it. But the labour pays off beautifully in ...

Exactly 30 years after his “Van Morrison in Ireland,” English helmer Michael Radford (“Il Postino“) returns to almost-divine music and his nonfiction roots with “Michel Petrucciani,” which chronicles ...