Piano trio is typically the format of choice, and there's always a fresh crop of them each year. Astute practitioners of jazz are a libertine bunch, however, and they can create ways to ...

Elsewhere in “They Shot the Piano Player” (the title riffing on the 1960 Francois Truffaut film “Shoot the Piano Player”), the movie dreams up scenes of Tenório Jr. on tour, or with his ...

So the fact that “They Shot the Piano Player” is wallpapered with classic ... As it is, the methods they’ve used to “shoot” the performances of the late subject and his contemporaries ...

They Shot the Piano Player is an animated docudrama that explores the real-world 1976 disappearance of Brazilian pianist Francisco Tenório Júnior. Tenório was a gifted young pianist (34 years old at ...

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Over the course of 81 of the briskest minutes in cinema, François Truffaut's Shoot The Piano Player contains flashbacks, jump-cuts, weird superimpositions, tender love scenes, broad slapstick ...

The new economy of jazz has forced many musicians to adopt a "go lean" approach; more than ever, three is a magic number. Trio recordings in jazz... Shoot The Piano Player: New Jazz Trios Shoot ...

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Charlie (Charles Aznavour) is a former classical pianist who has changed his name and now plays jazz in a grimy Paris bar. When Charlie's brothers, Richard (Jean-Jacques Aslanian) and Chico ...