The jazz artist suffered from a condition that rendered his bones brittle and his stature three feet tall. But in the '80s and '90s, he still... Michel Petrucciani was the first important jazz pianist ...

Michel Petrucciani's Kuumbwa is the type of release that reminds us why live jazz recordings still matter. This is not a vault-cleaning exercise, nor just a historical note. Recorded at the Kuumbwa ...

In this program from 1987, Petrucciani, then 23, performs his own tune, "The Prayer," and host Marian McPartland joins him on "My Funny Valentine." Michel Petrucciani On Piano Jazz Michel Petrucciani ...

One grave away from Chopin and not far from Balzac and Jim Morrison in Pere-Lachaise, the Parisian cemetery and tourist hotspot, lies the French-Italian pianist Michel Petrucciani. He died ten years ...

The phenomenon that was pianist Michel Petrucciani (b. December 28th, 1962, d. January 6th, 1999) is brought to life by this double-feature DVD from Dreyfus Records. Containing the hour-long ...

Small man, big talentI had not heard of Michel Petrucciani before I started making a film about him; nor had I made a documentary for 25 years. But every documentary is a journey of discovery, and I ...

Doc about the French jazz pianist is a clear-eyed, non-judgmental portrait of an artist as a permanent young man. By Kirk Honeycutt Michel Petrucciani Cannes Film Review For Petrucciani was born in ...

Michel Petrucciani was the first important jazz pianist I ever saw live. In retrospect, it's hard to believe that he would make it to Guéret, my tiny hometown in the middle of France. But in 1992, on ...

English helmer Michael Radford ("Il Postino") returns to almost-divine music and his nonfiction roots with "Michel Petrucciani," which chronicles the short but intense life of the late, great French ...

Born with the genetic disease osteogenesis imperfecta, he only stood at three feet. But with hands unaffected by his disease and an extraordinary talent, Michel Petrucciani is one of the greatest ...

Michel Petrucciani, the French piano virtuoso who died young in 1999, was a great piano talent who always sounded in love with the instrument and the sound of jazz. Petrucciani, who suffered from a ...

Exactly 30 years after his “Van Morrison in Ireland,” English helmer Michael Radford (“Il Postino“) returns to almost-divine music and his nonfiction roots with “Michel Petrucciani,” which chronicles ...