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Former MU professor flies solo on album of piano improvisations One-time University of Missouri professor Rich Pellegrin sits down at the piano and builds worlds on his latest album. Exquisite and meditative, Solitude: Solo Improvisations (OA2) unites the language of 21st-century jazz and neoclassical music to create something curious and spiritual. Pellegrin now splits time between two disparate climates the Seattle area and Gainesville, where he teaches at the University of Florida. Past Pellegrin efforts have taken shape as full-band recordings, amply textured and exhibiting a melodic sense of adventure reminiscent of a Brad Mehldau or Keith Jarrett. Here, flying solo, Pellegrin presses into another side of his playing. The album captures the spirit of our age the abundance of unstructured time, desire to reconnect with the land, and wandering through the wide-open spaces of our minds, Pellegrin s website notes. ....