In this case, the two pianists, brought together for their interest in improvisation and composition with broad palette, are two outstanding representatives of piano jazz at present. Both artists demonstrate abilities as solo pianists to develop a small theme into a larger form; it is thus a very exciting improvisational encounter we have in store in Storyville.

Craig Taborn was born in 1970 in Minneapolis, and since the beginning of the 1990s has been a central part of New York's jazz scene with organ, synths and piano as his instruments. Since 2011 he has been working along with Vijay Iyer as he recorded music for ECM, partly as a solo pianist and with his own trio.