Vincent Peirani – SuedtirolJazz Festival 2014. Photo credit Ralf Dombrowski – All Rights Reserved

A rising – or, more accurately – risen star of the French scene is brilliant, charismatic, and impossibly tall Nice-born accordionist Vincent Peirani. In the first of our coverage from this year’s Suedtirol/ Alto Adige Jazz Festival, writer photographer Ralf Dombrowski has caught him in five different moods. Sebastian first heard him as part of Daniel Humair’s quartet in 2012 and we also reviewed a fine first album for ACT, Thrill Box

Vincent Peirani – SuedtirolJazz Festival 2014. Photo credit Ralf Dombrowski – All Rights Reserved

Serena Fisseau, Vincent Peirani – SuedtirolJazz Festival 2014. Photo credit Ralf Dombrowski – All Rights Reserved

Vincent Peirani – SuedtirolJazz Festival 2014. Photo credit Ralf Dombrowski – All Rights Reserved

Vincent Peirani – SuedtirolJazz Festival 2014. Photo credit Ralf Dombrowski – All Rights Reserved