Jazz Articles about Emie R. Roussel

About Emie R. Roussel

Album Review

Even after 15 years of creative synergy, the Montréal-based Emie R Roussel Trio continues to flex its creative muscles with sensitivity and sophistication. TERR seems to center around the common themes of togetherness and community, of what humanity shares and the spaces we co-inhabit. Emie R. Roussel on piano and keyboards with Nicolas Bédard on electric bass and Dominic Cloutier on drums. The trio balances interesting rhythms, piano riffs and airy atmospheres. Though the first track is more conservative in ...

Album Review

Emie R. Roussel: TERR

by Hrayr Attarian
June 8, 2026

Over a career spanning a bit more than a decade, award-winning Canadian pianist Emie R. Roussel has developed a unique style. It draws on both the Western classical tradition and jazz. Furthermore, her captivating music is a deft mix of exciting spontaneity and a poetic undercurrent. Her fourth release as a leader with her working trio is the wistful and cinematic Terr. It consists of seven of Roussel's originals that, in their thematic unity, reflect on humanity's collective experience ...

Album Review

Emie R. Roussel Trio: Rythme de Passage

Read "Rythme de Passage" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
March 21, 2020

The artist's job: Find your voice. The Montreal-based Emie Rioux Roussel Trio has spent ten years at the endeavor, one that has taken the group to Japan, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, France, Italy and Estonia, garnering many prestigious award nominations along the way. The music on Rythme de Passage, the group's fifth album release, displays sharply-defined vision, a distinctive twenty-first century piano trio voice. Putting the originality of the sound aside, influences on the trio's approach, beginning with ...