The pianist and composer known as Talfi
has released his latest EP record, “Premier Concert.” The EP is
composed of five original tracks for an approximate total listening
time of half an hour, making for a roundly comprehensive treatment of
the artist's material. It has been proudly published without
financial or managerial support from the corporate music industry.
Tastefully rendered, masterfully executed and wildly creative,
“Premier Concert” is jazz piano for music fans who appreciate
playing guided by explosively colorful imagination.
Talfi's musical mind is inspired by a
broad variety of legendary performers, being rooted in the
triumvirate of Mozart, Chopin and Beethoven, but liberated by blues
players such as Sonny Boy Williamson and the Blues Brothers. Talfi's
characteristic mode of playing is infused with the post-ragtime
stride style of Fats Waller, and extremely fluid and active without
passing into ostentation. This last quality he takes from the agile
jazz of Oscar Peterson, whom Duke Ellington called the “Maharaja of
keyboards.”
A born Parisian, Talfi was raised in
nearby Chartres and began studies in piano at the age of six. He
proved to be a natural player, excelling ahead of his peers, but
found musical academia unsuited to him at the age of 14 and commenced
practicing on his own. After finding his other studies also
incompatible, he joined the military and began learning drums,
trombone, and other brass instruments. After returning to France,
Talfi enrolled at a music school in Tours.
“I would say that I did not learn
much there,” he writes of this. “I was having fun with friends,
though.”
Meanwhile, he was also training himself
to play harmonica, which he continued to practice in earnest for an
entire decade. In 2013, he rededicated himself to the piano and began
improvising “on the same grid for an hour every day.” These
practice sessions would eventually result in his new EP, the “Premier
Concert” (or “First Concert”). A second record is also already
in the works.
“Nowadays,” he writes, “I
continue with the same pace, and there are already three songs in the
'Deuxième Concert,' which is coming up … Hopefully, you will be
inspired.”
“Premier Concert” by Talfi is
available online worldwide. Get in early.
-S. McCauley
Lead Press Release Writer
www.MondoTunes.com
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