With his hat tipped on a jaunty angle, a cigarette hanging from his lips and thoroughly dressed to impress, this lounge lizard is one smooth operator, as he runs through his classic musical repertoire in the company of fellow denizens of cool.

Few contemporary figurative artists portray the epitome of cool as critically acclaimed modern day exponent, Labarre does; a truth illustratively underlined in his brand new release visually documented here, entitled, what else but, ‘Piano Man’.