(Edition)Unaccompanied, Galvin brings surprising runs and whiplash sounds from his instrument, recorded at a new
Paris museum
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Frank Gehry, the 90-year-old
American architect behind the spectacular new Fondation Louis Vuitton museum in Paris, quoted jazz sax legend Wayne Shorter’s opinion of rehearsals when asked about his own, improv-inspired working methods: “You can’t practice what you ain’t already invented.” Fittingly, the Fondation brought contemporary jazz under its soaring glass wings in 2018 – this 40-minute set by the distantly Jarrett-like but mostly unclassifiable young English pianist Elliot Galvin (a longtime collaborator with imaginative trumpeter/composer Laura Jurd) was recorded during that year’s solo jazz piano series at the venue.