Yannick Rieu
YANNICK RIEU composer and saxophonist
Recognized as one of the most talented jazz saxophonists in the world, Yannick Rieu is the recipient of the 18th Oscar Peterson Award, acknowledging his outstanding musicianship and exceptional contribution to the development of Canadian jazz. His music is best defined by its constant evolution.
He has received unanimous praise from jazz critics around the world: «Most likely one of the world's 20 best jazz saxophone players.» - Journal de Montréal (Canada) – «Canada's greatest jazz poet.» - Jazzman (France) – In 1988, “Downbeat” magazine Critic Poll ranked him alongside Brandford Marsalis and Joe Lovano as one of the 20 most promising saxophonists on the world scene. Jazz writers have compared him to Stan Getz or Lee Konitz (L'Express, Toronto) - «He sounds like a mixture of Tony Malaby or Chris Potter's muscular playing with a hint of mid-60s Sonny Rollins lyricism.» - The Jazz Clinic (USA).
Where does Yannick Rieu really stand? The answer is complex. «He has the ability to evoke the roar and fury of life as well as the tenderness and exquisite delight of our existence.» (Stanley Péan, Radio Canada).
«Contextually neither expressionist nor impressionist, avant-gardist nor neo-conservative, Yannick Rieu instead inhabits a middle ground, where inspiration is motivated by individual concern, a private vision. The choice he has made mark him as a musician of thoughtful gesture and singular craft.» - Art Lange, New York. «Bruno Monsaingeon once said that Glenn Gould's genius was to give each auditor the seemingly miraculous ability to decipher Bach's music. Yannick Rieu is endowed with the same gift: to hear him think out loud his interior musical self is to experience the exhilarating sensation of being able to speak the jazz idiom ourselves.» L'Express, Toronto.
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- Little Zab by AAJ Staff
“He sounds like a mixture of Tony Malaby or Chris Potter's muscular playing with a hint of mid-60s Sonny Rollins lyricism.” - The Jazz Clinic (USA).
«Contextually neither expressionist nor impressionist, avant-gardist nor neo-conservative, Yannick Rieu instead inhabits a middle ground, where inspiration is motivated by individual concern, a private vision. The choice he has made mark him as a musician of thoughtful gesture and singular craft.» - Art Lange, New York.
«Bruno Monsaingeon once said that Glenn Gould's genius was to give each auditor the seemingly miraculous ability to decipher Bach's music