Ramin Arjomand Solo at The DiMenna Center October 19

Last weekend’s thrilling performance at The DiMenna Center marks for me 15 years of solo improvisation performances in New York and abroad. These two clips taken from 20 and 60 minutes into the 80-minute improvisation indicate the work is strong as ever and continues to flourish. The format of these performances evolved rather rapidly, with a 60-minute set at the old ISSUE Project Room in 2011 marking a pivotal turning point, to the form they presently take and which, to my knowledge, no other pianist is practicing with the same consistency, commitment, and unity of artistic vision.