Jean Beaudet

Jean Beaudet Trio: Les Danseurs

by John Kelman
April 6, 2004

Risk-taking is endemic to jazz; however what can appear to be a chancy approach, in the final analysis, can also be merely shtick--the much-hyped The Bad Plus being a prime example. Canadian pianist Jean Beaudet knows all about risk. With a recording career that now extends back twenty-five years, he has been touted as the torch-taker for two pianists who have been synonymous with musical adventure, Oscar Peterson and Paul Bley. The comparisons are not altogether untoward as he demonstrates ...