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# [Sullivan Fortner: Solo Game](https://simeonmorrow.com/vienna-live/2024/01/18/sullivan-fortner-solo-game)

 Written by [Vienna Live with Simeon Morrow](https://simeonmorrow.com/vienna-live/author/simeonmorrow) | Jan 18, 2024 6:56:08 PM

    
 Sullivan Fortner in Fall, 2023 (©Sabrina Santiago)

> *“On Part 1 of his new double-LP, ‘Solo Game,’ which includes tunes from the Great American Songbook and beyond, Fortner’s left and right hands dart over and around each other, creating a high-velocity architecture of rhythm and harmony… But then, on Part 2 — the “Game” side of the album — it’s the studio that becomes his playground.” *
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> [- New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/17/arts/music/playlist-andre-3000-drake-danny-brown.html)

> *“He is one of the best pianists in the world today and he has all of the musical attributes I love: creativity, technique always in the service of expression, joy and humor, fearlessness and pianistic mastery.”*
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> - Fred Hersch

> *“He is a spiritually thematic soul, alone in the studio he plays his concerns into the music. What we hear is a musician seeking safety in the studio, using every tool nearby to create a forcefield protecting him from a threatening environment and in this chamber, we hear a world emerge.”*
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> - Jason Moran

*Come welcome jazz pianist Sullivan Fortner to Vienna Live and he will present us with his daring new album, *Solo Game*!*

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