"This
duet...is so full of joy that it can renew your
faith not just in jazz, but music itself."
Phil Johnson, Independent on Sunday
John
Law returns to Embrace Arts with his latest
project, a piano duo with his very talented
ex-student Mark Pringle.
A true original, John Law
pursues a distinctive agenda that has moved over
the years from contemporary-classical / improve
explorations to the borders of an amiable
funkiness, and a little delving into other
composers’ tunes. This piano duo maintains his
unswerving focus on music that matters to him,
from Bach to Pat Metheny.
John
Law is most intimidatingly impressive. This is a
man whose restless intelligence always seems two
steps ahead of his fingers. He’ll put something
into the piano’s innards to make them jangle,
decide against it, and push in a cloth to muffle
the strings instead, all the while sustaining a
complicated pattern with the other hand. The body
language mirrors his seething mental activity. In
lyrical moments Law sways as his hands reach and
stab for the most telling dissonance, in fast ones
his arms rebound in the air from a struck chord
and describe a half-circle, like a follow-through
in tennis. The phrase ’furious concentration’
has rarely seemed so apt.
