Kirk Lightsey defies easy jazz categorisation. Having cut his teeth with Chet Baker, and schooled in hard bop, he is a true musical multilinguist, somehow fusing the gutsy stride of the Blues with the swooping lyricism of Classical, and emerging with a piano style at once reassuringly rooted in the familiar and refreshingly all of his own.
The sense of joy from the performers was palpable, and the elan of the bop playing, particularly one gospel-tinged number redolent of Ramsey Lewis, was just captivating. Impressive.
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