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Instrument: Viola
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by Troy Dostert
Although he has yet to achieve substantial acclaim beyond his native Canada, Montreal-based pianist Yves Léveillé has made an accomplished series of albums going back to 1999 with Signal Commun, the first of several releases on Effendi Records. Léveillé's music possesses a strong jazz vocabulary, but the pianist also has an abiding classical temperament. A disc like Phare (Effendi, 2019) offers excellent post-bop jazz, utilizing a conventional quintet. But on L'Échelle du Temps, it's the classical spirit that prevails, with ...
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