Sergi Sirvent

Sergi Sirvent: Free Quartet

by AAJ Staff
October 11, 2005

Sergi Sirvent is an interesting young pianist whose style is hard to pigeonhole. To his credit, he is shaping a thoroughly original approach to jazz piano improvisation. On the other hand, his improvisations sound fragmented at times, almost as if they were a series of isolated phrases and ideas with insufficient connective tissue.

In the CD booklet Sirvent says, “I wanted to try and investigate more in hearing the chords rather than writing them down." In other words, ...