I'm all for enthusiastic endorsement, so thank you Allen (and welcome back!): I was sufficiently impressed to listen to most of the rest of that 2023 showcase (when he was all of 18, if I'm not mistaken). With that two-handed wizardry and those supersonic typewriter lines, Phineas Newborn jumped to my mind (he'll probably get the same "soulless technician/speed demon" critics, with some good and some bad reasons). He can be really inventive. I liked his interpretation of Bud's "Celia" and "Monk's Dream", as well as two of originals, I think ("Rose-Colored Paradise" and "Chorale"). An impressive solo "Inner Urge" as well.