MUSIC: PUTTING FIRE IN THE CANON

FROM PARIS COMES THE LATEST JAZZ PHENOM, JACKY TERRASSON, WHOSE ICONOCLASTIC PIANO SOLOS BRING NEW LIFE TO THE STANDARDS

Jazz piano is so glutted with talent these days that it's hard to get through a week without another new prodigy popping up somewhere. With flying-fingered young virtuosos like Marcus Roberts, Cyrus Chestnut and Eric Reed trying to outdo one another on showy new solo albums and jostling for attention in nightclubs from Bourbon Street to Greenwich Village, competition on the keyboards is more intense than it has been in years. In the midst of all this musical gunslinging, it would be easy to overlook Jacky Terrasson, a newcomer from Paris. But that would be a mistake.

Terrasson, 29, comes to...

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