Elliot Galvin hit the ground running as a rare original with a precociously encyclopaedic grasp of all manner of modern musics when he first emerged as trumpeter Laura Jurd’s quirky piano soulmate in 2012 – and he’s sustained that very creative connection through Jurd’s increasingly feted years since, while running an independent life as a post-Jarrett keyboard explorer fusing jazz, electronics, and improv from all over contemporary music. Galvin’s own albums have mostly been with his regular jazz trio, but Live In Paris, At Fondation Louis Vuitton is an unaccompanied set from the city’s adventurous new arts space, the opening performance on a 2018 double-bill that also featured fellow pianist Craig Taborn. This 45-minute improvisation on six all-acoustic tracks takes Galvin from the storm of end-to-end runs, gently ringing interludes and percussive chording of the opening ‘As Above’, through the baroque-like symmetries of ‘For J.S.’ to the fast, flinty free-jazz cascades, chord-hammering drones and dreamy finale of the closing ‘So Below’. ‘Coda’ is a pithily brief exercise in subtle dynamics, launched in widely-spaced chord-stabs linked by quietly scuttling runs, ‘Time and Everything’ glimpses Galvin’s Jarrett roots in its rocking undertow, and the gently folksy but haltingly thoughtful ‘Broken Windows’ shows how lyrical he can be for all the fearlessness with which he writes his own rules. It all adds up to an uncompromisingly memorable solo piano debut.