EuroClubdeJazz - "Hot Piano!" Review - December 2003

Certainly, it’s different but, to be honest, it does get slightly boring especially as there are 24 tracks on the disc – some lasting just over a minute, others nine minutes plus. The complete disc plays for more than 76 minutes, which is a nice change, or chore depending how you see it.

It’s a showcase album, with some numbers written by himself, but it’s doubtful if the cigar-chompin’ showman – he has been likened to a cross between Liberace and Vladimir Horowitz - can break through big-time as a solo artist. Oh, and what is Claude Debussy doing on a ‘ragtime’ disc.