Sebastian writes:

The headline (and possibly the highlight) of the 2020 Pizza Express Steinway Two Pianos Festival will be a return to London after a significant gap of US pianist JoAnne Brackeen, whose solo style was memorably described by Richard Cook and Brian Morton in their Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD as: “muscular but harmonically limpid”.

JoAnne Brackeen. Publicity photo

FULL LISTING

Friday 13 March
Julian Joseph & Jason Rebello

Saturday 14 March
Joe Webb & Jamie Safir + Jack Stephenson-Oliver & Dominic J Marshall
Joe Stilgoe + James Pearson

Sunday 15 March
Ian Shaw & Liane Carroll

Monday 16 March
2 Pianos, 6 Pianists, 12 Hands & 60 Digits: Rob Barron, Tom Cawley, Graham Harvey, David Newton, Joe Stilgoe, Gareth Williams

Tuesday 17 March
Robert Mitchell & Ashley Henry

Wednesday 18 March
Nikki Yeoh & Zoe Rahman

Thursday 19 March
Dado Moroni & Danny Grissett

Friday 20 March
Guy Chambers & Reuben James

Saturday 21 March
Mike Westbrook & Jonathan Gee
JoAnne Brackeen & Dena DeRose

Sunday 22 March
Liam Noble & Kit Downes + Maria Chiara Argiro & Bruno Heinen
Dom Pipkin & Joe Mac

LINK: The festival at Pizza Express Live