Howard Riley - Air Play

One of the jazz world's most immediately recognisable and unfussily virtuosic pianists. This album utilises all the musical vocabulary Riley has acquired over the past quarter-century - his trademark walking baselines under ringing, wonderfully cluttered right-hand improvisations; his delightful visits to disguised standards (here Lover Man); his tumbling runs interspersed with clanging percussiveness - to produce music of rare power and strange, pungent beauty. A genuine original at the peak of his powers. - BBC Music Magazine.

Recorded at Goldsmiths College, London, 9 April 2000.

Personnel: Howard Riley (piano)