{"product_id":"iiro-rantala_rantala-iiro-my-working-class-hero_2015_pia","title":"Rantala Iiro \/ My Working Class Hero","description":"John Lennon would have been seventy-five years old on October 9, 2015. Pianist Iiro Rantala pays tribute to the legendary musician, many of whose songs have stood the test of time.Revealed to the wider French public in June 2014 by a laudatory review from André Manoukian on France Inter, the Finn Iiro Rantala is the best-known jazz pianist in his home country. In 2011, the ten tracks of his solo album on ACT, \"Lost Heroes,\" already paid tribute to his childhood idols and other sources of inspiration.For this new album, Rantala pays tribute to the musical hero closest to his heart. \"I heard John Lennon's music long before I knew anything about jazz. I sang 'Happy Xmas, War Is Over' in the school choir, and even then, young as I was, I wondered how one could write such a simple yet powerful and evocative theme.\"The pianist does not fall into sterile and comfortable reinterpretation; he recreates these formidable pop songs by distancing himself from the original themes and reharmonizing them. The result is an album full of surprises and harmonic pitfalls, alternating grooves and melodic developments. The virtuosity is never in vain, and the music produced by Rantala comes from the heart. It breathes, takes flight, adorned with shimmering and iridescent colors. Sometimes a dark dreamer, sometimes a joyful joker, Iiro Rantala explores the countless expressive possibilities of his instrument, a magnificent Steinway D, the very one used by Alfred Brendel for the past forty years in his concerts at the Berlin Philharmonie, and recently acquired by Siggi Loch. Thus, with this majestic companion by his side, Iiro Rantala pays a vibrant and very personal tribute to John Lennon, the universal musical icon who inspired him magnificently.","brand":"Iiro Rantala","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55304405090648,"sku":null,"price":23874570.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0898\/4943\/0360\/files\/0614427959713_3a1c69ac-aace-4fff-a510-82a5097aec8e.jpg?v=1759505912","url":"https:\/\/vinyles.com\/en-us\/products\/iiro-rantala_rantala-iiro-my-working-class-hero_2015_pia","provider":"Vinyles.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}