His music, as the press has put it: he has "an orchestra in his piano". Critics have compared him to Debussy, Ravel, Keith Jarrett, Stan Getz and Lionel Hampton, not because he imitates, but because his art reaches the same human depth and invites listeners to travel through a world entirely of its own. Eleven albums, a symphony in four movements (the Symphonie Imaginaire), compositions for theatre, film and radio: for decades Nat Laurens has been building a singular body of work, driven by one constant demand: that of true emotion. On stage, solo, in duo, trio, quartet or quintet, he creates each evening a space of particular intimacy, where the fusion of jazz and classical harmonies carries the audience away.