4 On his third recording, pianist Aaron Choulai—a legally blind, albino, New Guinea-born twentysomething of startlingly eclectic descent—taps into a reservoir of deep feeling on an ultra-sensitive rendering of “You Go to My Head” and his own introspective compositions. His trio, with bassist Sam Anning and either Ben Vanderwal or Rory McDugall on drums, swings “I’ll Be Seeing You,” during which Choulai adopts a playful, Keith Jarrett-inspired deconstructionist aesthetic. The band also turns in fresh readings of Neil Young’s “Tell Me Why” and Radiohead’s “The Tourist.” true 21 2009-11-04T23:01:50-05:00 false 25288 178 true 125 2009-12-01T00:00:00-05:00

On his third recording, pianist Aaron Choulai—a legally blind, albino, New Guinea-born twentysomething of startlingly eclectic descent—taps into a reservoir of deep feeling on an ultra-sensitive rendering of “You Go to My Head” and his own introspective compositions. His trio, with bassist Sam Anning and either Ben Vanderwal or Rory McDugall on drums, swings “I’ll Be Seeing You,” during which Choulai adopts a playful, Keith Jarrett-inspired deconstructionist aesthetic. The band also turns in fresh readings of Neil Young’s “Tell Me Why” and Radiohead’s “The Tourist.”

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