" data-original-title="" title="">Bill Evans tradition when it comes to jazz, but says he's equally at home with classical, world, pop, soul, rhythm and blues and electronic music. He lays claim to being a composer, producer, arranger, writer and film director.

Of Danish-Vietnamese origin, he has been a US resident recently—and, on occasion, France. Return to Denmark celebrates the pianist's return to what he calls "the motherland."

On it he tends to go off like a firework, exploding in all directions. For all his obvious technical ability, Lan Doky needs to learn that less is often more. But it's still the most interesting album to have come out of Denmark in a long while.

There are five originals; the best "Children's Song"—uncharacteristically simple and very beautiful—was originally written for Doky Brothers (Blue Note, 1996), a collaboration with brother/bassist