Joey Alexander Trio at Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts (University of Connecticut)

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At age 13, young Indonesian piano genius Joey Alexander is fearless at the keyboard. An extraordinary and uniquely gifted pianist he is one of today's most talked-about jazz artists. Performing a range of classic songs by Rodgers & Hammerstein, Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane and Billy Strayhorn, he has won the admiration of audiences by doing anything but playing it safe. Improvisational brilliance, along with a technique, feeling and authority that comes naturally, puts the young Alexander in a prodigy class all his own.