The jazz artist suffered from a condition that rendered his bones brittle and his stature three feet tall. But in the '80s and '90s, he still... Michel Petrucciani was the first important jazz pianist ...

One grave away from Chopin and not far from Balzac and Jim Morrison in Pere-Lachaise, the Parisian cemetery and tourist hotspot, lies the French-Italian pianist Michel Petrucciani. He died ten years ...

Born with the genetic disease osteogenesis imperfecta, he only stood at three feet. But with hands unaffected by his disease and an extraordinary talent, Michel Petrucciani is one of the greatest ...

It’s always a labour of love to make a jazz film, a jazz documentary even more so - especially when the musician subject is no longer around to promote it. But the labour pays off beautifully in ...

Sono venticinque anni che Michel Petrucciani ci ha lasciato e la sua storia brilla sempre come una delle più strane e conturbanti del jazz dei nostri tempi. Un uomo martoriato dalla Natura, alto poco ...

The shows were a worthy honor to Petrucciani. You can tell when everything is going exactly right, and this was one of those special times. A pair of nearly identical, back-to-back concerts honored ...

<!-- missing image http://blogs.kcrw.com/rhythmplanet/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/blog-spacer.jpg -->In the summer of 1981, I went to Paris on vacation. I squeezed in ...

Michel Petrucciani era alto meno di un metro e suonava il pianoforte come pochi uomini sulla terra. Simili misure ha suo figlio Alex, diventato anche lui musicista dopo aver perso il padre, a 9 anni: ...

Michael Radford racconta Michel Petrucciani, virtuoso del jazz, pianista dal tocco irrepetibile, che ha trasformato il destino ingrato che lo ha fatto nascere con una malattia genetica invalidante in ...

Viene avanti, con grande fatica, reggendosi malfermo su due stampelle piccole piccole. Fragile. Fragilissimo. Ma deciso a non darla vinta alla «malattia delle ossa di cristallo» che gli dà dolori ...

Michel Petrucciani was the first important jazz pianist I ever saw live. In retrospect, it's hard to believe that he would make it to Guéret, my tiny hometown in the middle of France. But in 1992, on ...

Exactly 30 years after his “Van Morrison in Ireland,” English helmer Michael Radford (“Il Postino“) returns to almost-divine music and his nonfiction roots with “Michel Petrucciani,” which chronicles ...