BARLESS (BALKAN)

The subtitle of this album is "Jazz Piano Improvisation" and that is exact description of the music. Petkovski plays solo piano on the entire disk in jazz manner, with occasional Balkan (Macedonia) traditional themes included. If you are not a fan of this type of jazz improvisation you could simply enjoy it as a background music - for reading a book, for instance. But, there are tons of similar products out on the market, so why bother? If you are a fan, or even better, if you are a musician/pianist, you may appreciate it more than I do. For me, it is too "academic" style to grasp its quality.