Demanding and no doubt a perfectionist, Previn's latest performance is on the new solo jazz piano CD, Alone.

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My next jazz solo's for you, Nancy.

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He also treated us to his solo guitar treatments of two jazz standards ("But Beautiful" and "The Night Has a Thousand Eyes"), as well as one of his own solo guitar compositions, "Venezuelan Nights, " from his recent CD The Spice of Life.

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Mr. Cyrille took an extended solo, hinting at decades of jazz's rhythmic possibilities.

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Discovered by Quincy Jones back in 1963 at the Nortre Dame Jazz Festival, James has recorded more than two dozen jazz albums as a solo artist.

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Hornsby began his solo career in 1990, and he released the jazz-oriented Harbor Lights in 1993.

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Vivaldi intended the solo violinist to improvise so for a kick check out the jazz-influenced version with clarinetist, Eddie Daniels, The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and Bernard Rubenstein.

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On 5 October, he releases his debut solo album - the Courtney Pine-produced From There to Here - followed by a launch event during London Jazz Festival in November.

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