Jazz Articles about Jean-Michel Pilc

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Jean-Michel Pilc: Essential

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 5, 2012

Jean-Michel Pilc è uno straordinario pianista, tutto sommato quasi ignorato da noi. Nel suo bagaglio ci sono tanto il dinamismo e la trasversalità di eredità monkiana, quanto la cerebralità sofisticata del cesellatore, anime contrapposte che Pilc tende a praticare in ambiti diversi: la prima in trio - le cui più recenti prove sono True Story, dello scorso anno, e Threedom, di quest'anno - e la seconda in piano solo. Proprio in solo è il lavoro in esame, che arriva sette ...

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Pilc-Moutin-Hoenig Trio: Washington, D.C. May 17, 2011

by Franz A. Matzner
June 8, 2011

Jean-Michel Pilc / Ari Hoenig / François Moutin Blues Alley Washington, D.C. May 17, 20011Tumultuous, unpredictable, vibrant with variegated rhythms and tempos, shimmering with torrents of sound and spiraling tendrils of color, the Pilc-Moutin-Hoenig Trio's recent performance at Blues Alley proceeded less like an unveiling and more like the exploding of a star--the event emitting a creative shock wave of force, overlapping forms, light, darkness, expanding and contracting space.The resonating artistic ...

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Jean-Michel Pilc: True Story

by Raul d'Gama Rose
October 3, 2010

There are few pianists in any realm of music as expressive, and with such extraordinary touch and dynamics, as Jean-Michel Pilc. He is also so enormously inventive that he might be perhaps one of very, very few pianists to inhabit the same rarefied atmosphere as Bill Evans. And that is only half the story. To Pilc, the piano is not another instrument; it is an extension of the human voice. It whispers sensuously and provocatively, babbling on with excited chatter ...

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Jean-Michel Pilc: True Story

by Karl Ackermann
July 7, 2010

Jean-Michel Pilc has yet to achieve a US prominence that compares to his fellow French jazz pianists, the late Michel Petrucciani and Algerian-born Martial Solal. While both of the latter musicians are frequently cited for their lightning-fast delivery, Pilc shares their agility as well as a finely honed ear for lyricism. But ultimately, Pilc is a different kind of player, interpreter and personality. He counters his own expressive side with a particular state of off-kilter playing that doesn't necessarily allow ...

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Jean-Michel Pilc: True Story

by Joel Roberts
May 12, 2010

Paris-born pianist Jean-Michel Pilc continues his impressive series of Dreyfus Jazz releases with True Story, his first album since 2006's New Dreams and the debut effort for his exciting new trio featuring respected veteran drummer Billy Hart and talented Russian-born bassist Boris Kozlov. The 49-year-old Pilc, a resident of New York for the past 15 years, is a self-taught musician whose varied experience includes playing with masters like Roy Haynes, Michael Brecker and Dave Liebman, among many others, as well ...

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Jean-Michel Pilc: A Portrait & True Story

by Dan Bilawsky
March 28, 2010

If pianist Jean-Michel Pilc hadn't become a musician, he might have had a brilliant career as a philosopher or historian. Throughout John McCormick's film, Jean-Michel Pilc: A Portrait, which highlights Pilc's music and his thoughts on music and art, Pilc doles out grains of truth that are brilliant in their simplicity and speak directly to his manner of performing and composing. Pilc explains that he has never drawn a distinction between different styles or labels, like “classical" or “jazz," and ...

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Jean-Michel Pilc Trio at the Douglas Beach House in Half Moon Bay

by Bill Leikam
February 15, 2009

Jean-Michel Pilc TrioDouglas Beach HouseHalf Moon Bay, CaliforniaJanuary 25, 2009

Jean-Michel Pilc's fingers popped over the keyboard with an opening ferocity that awoke the Sunday audience, as though he were defying the listener not to be impressed by his piano style. He tends to put his whole body into playing, drawing from the piano a crystalline clarity that not many pianists can bring forth from the keys. More often than not, Pilc laced the tunes ...