Jazz Articles about Michel Reis

Michel Reis: Point of No Return

by Dan McClenaghan
March 3, 2011

With Point of No Return, pianist Michel Reis--born in Luxembourg and now New York-based after formal education at Berklee School of Music and the New England Conservatory--has recorded an album of atmospheric, often somber, and consistently beautiful music. The twenty-something musician avoids the trap into which so many budding artists fall: that of mixing styles and concepts on a single set, trying to show off everything they can do.The finely focused, mostly piano trio effort is augmented on ...