Joey Alexander with Strings (at the Appel Room) - New York City Article

Joey Alexander with Strings
The Appel Room
Jazz at Lincoln Center
Broadway at 60th Street
Friday October 19 & Saturday October 20

Still only 15 years old, Indonesia-born Joey Alexander is more than just a piano prodigy, but one of the most exciting keyboardists playing today. As his albums, My Favorite Things (2015), Countdown (2016), Joey. Monk. Live! (2017), and this year’s Eclipse show, he is constantly inventive, creative, and surprising, like the best pianists in the history of jazz, constantly coming up with new ways to play a familiar song, and also a gifted composer of originals, like the memorable “Sunday Waltz” (on the second album). This session with a string orchestra is a new project, orchestrated and conducted by Jazz at Lincoln Center veteran Rich DeRosa, who has contributed some of the most memorable arrangements to the JALC Orchestra over the years - and hopefully this music will eventually find its way onto an album as well.

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