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Ariane Racicot: Danser avec le feu

Read "Danser avec le feu" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


The piano trio is a tried and true jazz format. Art Tatum, Erroll Garner, Red Garland and Ahmad Jamal made their marks there. Also Bill Evans, Marc Copland and Brad Mehldau, and so many others. And let us not forget Fred Hersch and a hundred or so more. Some artists, feeling constrained by the limitations of the trio and wanting to push the boundaries with the addition of electricity, energy and the modernity of their own compositions take ...

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Ariane Racicot: Danser avec le feu

Read "Danser avec le feu" reviewed by Neil Duggan


In 2013, Montreal-based pianist Ariane Racicot's performance of Queen's “Bohemian Rhapsody" was captured on YouTube and went viral. This has been viewed over 18 million times, additionally garnering her a sizeable following on other social media platforms where she remains an active participant. Her musical education followed a formal path with training in classical piano from the age of six, before switching to jazz ten years later. Her studies were completed at the University of Montreal and McGill. ...

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Ariane Racicot: Envolée

Read "Envolée" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Pianos pop up in odd places--airports, shopping malls, and Quebec's Mount Royal Park, where pianist Ariane Racicot strode up to a lonely upright, sat down and presented an unsuspecting crowd to a killer version of Queen's “Bohemian Rhapsody." This performance then popped up on YouTube, where it has garnered 18 million views. Racicot was a teenager at the time of that wow-the-crowd street performance. She is, as she releases her debut album Envolee in 2022, just twenty-five, but ...


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