Jazz
![Kris Bowers opens this session with a soulful, prepared-piano version of Juan Tizol's "Caravan": "It's important to remember that [the piano] is a percussive instrument."](http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2012/01/20/kris-bowers-color.jpg?t=1328647948&s=3 "Kris Bowers opens this session with a soulful, prepared-piano version of Juan Tizol's \"Caravan\": \"It's important to remember that [the piano] is a percussive instrument.\"")
Kris Bowers opens this session with a soulful, prepared-piano version of Juan Tizol's "Caravan": "It's important to remember that [the piano] is a percussive instrument."
From prepared piano to quiet ballads, the pianist keeps a wide sonic palette in orbit.
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