Orvieto

Pianists Chick Corea and Stefano Bollani can both play a lot of notes fast and have occasional tendencies to grandstand. But if they’re all over each other in the early stages of this Italian concert, later we hear the mutual understanding and assured rhythmic their time together since 2009 has nurtured. A prancing, marching stride-piano feel follows rhapsodic, gradually intensifying Jobim explorations early on. Fats Waller’s Jitterbug Waltz juggles time-patterns, trills, stabs and swing. Bollani’s A Valsa da Paula is quite abstract, and Tirititran develops from handclapping and drumming on the piano through tinkling, stop-start free improv to relaxed traditional grooving that recalls old-time pianists such as Erroll Garner.