Introduction of Michele Patroziani
Michel Petrucciani, a French pianist suffering from dwarfism, died of lung disease on 1999 1 6 in New York, USA, ending his short life of 37 years. He can be regarded as one of the most outstanding symbols of jazz since the 1980s. He not only overcame osteogenesis imperfecta from birth, but also made the world respect him. His height is less than one meter and his bones are more fragile than ordinary people, which also creates an impressive majestic music image on the keyboard. His piano music is full of courage, and the strong emotional tension may come from his unyielding challenge to his perverse fate, but his music is definitely not only antagonistic grief, but also an exciting and miraculous brilliance, which is the ultimate achievement he left to the world and the most precious memory of jazz countries in the last two decades of the twentieth century.