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About André Previn:
André Previn may well be the most widely-accomplished musical renaissance man of his time or any other: no other musician or composer has had a comparable career and worked in so many diverse areas--not even the late Leonard Bernstein. Only André Previn has found enduring success as a classical conductor, a jazz pianist, a hit songwriter, a composer of scores for films and musical comedies, and, more recently, even of operas. He is also releasing a new jazz album, Alone (his first since 2001’s Live At The Jazz Standard), and his first album of solo piano in over a decade. Mr. Previn stresses that he has never “shuttled back and forth” between the worlds of jazz and classical music; when he made the commitment to the classical tradition in the mid-’60s, it was a permanent, full-time one. However, he has taken the occasional jazz vacation over the last four decades, much of the delight of connoisseurs of jazz.
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