Disklavier

Oh, I totally agree on both counts!  Recordings of either of these 
pianists would be must-buys.

Personally, I'd prefer to have recordings that I can replay and study 
(and maybe import into a sequencer or notation software) as opposed to 
one-time-only RemoteLive events.  Maybe live concerts could be used to 
promote the recordings, though.

Mark


On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 08:23:17PM -0000, mjd7282 wrote:

> 1.  Alex Hassan.  Have a look at his website 
> (http://www.noveltypiano.com/), but make sure you have AVG or similar 
> protection, because it has apparently just protected me from a threat.  
> Alex is utterly fantastic as a novelty piano player.
> 
> 2.  Jack Gibbons, Concert Pianist and superb Gershwin specialist 
> (http://www.jackgibbons.com/)
> 
> I've met Alex many times over the years, both in the UK and Washington 
> DC, where he lives.  Jack invited me to perform Russ Conway's "Side 
> Saddle" as an encore at one of his Gershwin concerts in Oxford a few 
> years ago.  He now lives in the US, and is resident at a college in, I 
> think, Virginia.
> 
> There is no shortage of virtuoso classical pianists, but I would 
> suggest that to hear either of these guys playing syncopated piano on 
> your own Disklavier at home would be quite a thrill.