Piano Solo is a solo album

Solo album

A solo album, in popular music, is an album headlined by a current or former member of a band. A solo album may feature simply one person performing all instruments, but typically features the work of other collaborators; rather, it may be made with different collaborators than the artist is...

 by Italian pianist Stefano Bollani

Stefano Bollani

Stefano Bollani is an Italian jazz pianist from Milan.He made his professional debut at fifteen and received his diploma in piano from the Conservatorio Luigi Cherubini in Florence. He performs classical music, smooth jazz, avant-garde jazz, Brazilian jazz, and pop rock...

 recorded in 2005 and released on the ECM label.

Reception

The Allmusic review by Richard S. Ginell awarded the album 4 stars stating "Bollani can improvise on Prokofiev, trip along through a Dixieland standard... turn out splendidly intricate paraphrases... He also likes to make improbable associations... For the most part, all of this is filtered through a distinct, poetic, never flashy for its own sake, improvising personality, a lovely touch, and a concise sense of structure.".

Track listing

All compositions by Stefano Bollani except as indicated

1. "Antonia" (Antonio Zambrini) – 4:52
2. "Impro I" – 3:12
3. "Impro II" – 3:05
4. "On a Theme by Sergey Prokofiev" – 5:27
5. "For All We Know
   For All We Know (1934 song)
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   " (J. Fred Coots
   J. Fred Coots
   John Frederick Coots was an American songwriter. He wrote over 700 songs.He is most famous for the song "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town", a song that became one of the biggest best sellers in American music history....
   
   , Sam M. Lewis
   Sam M. Lewis
   Sam M. Lewis was a Jewish-American singer and lyricist, born in New York City, New York as Samuel Levine-Biography:...
   
   ) – 5:46
6. "Promenade" – 4:05
7. "Impro III" – 3:35
8. "A Media Luz" (Edgardo Donato
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   , Carlos Cesar Lenzi) – 4:39
9. "Impro IV" – 3:43
10. "Buzzillare" – 3:11
11. "Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?" (Louis Alter
    Louis Alter
    Louis Alter was an American pianist, songwriter and composer. Alter was 13 when he began playing piano in theaters showing silent films...
    
    , Eddie DeLange
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    ) – 4:36
12. "Cómo Fue" (Ernesto Duarte Brito) – 4:12
13. "On the Street Where You Live
    On the Street Where You Live
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    " (Alan Jay Lerner
    Alan Jay Lerner
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    , Frederick Loewe) – 5:35
14. "Maple Leaf Rag
    Maple Leaf Rag
    The "Maple Leaf Rag" is an early ragtime musical composition for piano composed by Scott Joplin. It was one of Joplin's early works, and is one of the most famous of all ragtime pieces, and became the model for ragtime compositions by subsequent composers. As a result Joplin was called the "King...
    
    " (Scott Joplin
    Scott Joplin
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    ) – 2:37
15. "Sarcasmi" – 3:27
16. "Don't Talk (Put Your Head on My Shoulder)
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    " (Tony Asher
    Tony Asher
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    , Brian Wilson
    Brian Wilson
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    ) – 6:18