I was subjected this morning to an NPR spot about André Previn’s new solo jazz piano album. Excerpts I heard were sensitively played, I guess – but it was the kind of lusterless, easy cocktail piano that our best student jazz pianists can doodle out when they’re not really thinking about it. Our jazz piano professor would play in that style only for satirical purposes. But André Previn is a famous musician, and of course famous musicians make only great music, and NPR can’t risk wasting its audience’s time with a musician no one’s heard of….