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Article: Year in Review

Jeff Dayton-Johnson's Best of 2008

Read "Jeff Dayton-Johnson's Best of 2008" reviewed by Jeff Dayton-Johnson


When the world economy entered into a tailspin this year, Argentine president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner dubbed the event the “Jazz Effect“ given that it emanated from the United States (she was drawing a parallel, for example, to the 1994 “Tequila Effect" that followed a botched currency devaluation in Mexico). I was so happy that a ...

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Faraway So Close

Label: Bee Jazz
Released: 2008
Track listing: Wish You Were Here; Coin de rue; Choral; What Do You Mean? #1; Après un rêve (d'après Gabriel Fauré); What Do You Mean? #2; Ida Lupino; What Do You Mean? #3; Parenthèse; Nocturne.

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Article: Album Review

Guillaum de Chassy: Faraway So Close

Read "Faraway So Close" reviewed by Budd Kopman


Faraway So Close is a trio offering from pianist Guillaume de Chassy, whose previous recording, Piano Solo (Bee Jazz, 2007), was completely engrossing in its trenchant beauty. This album projects the same depth, sincerity and directness of communication as the former one, but in a trio setting. Music is mysterious in the manner ...

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Article: Album Review

Guillaume de Chassy: Faraway So Close

Read "Faraway So Close" reviewed by Jeff Dayton-Johnson


On the heels of two highly-acclaimed duet recordings with bassist Daniel Yvinec (the latter recently named to head France's National Jazz Orchestra), pianist Guillaume de Chassy last year released a remarkable Piano solo (Bee Jazz, 2007). You see the trend: duo, solo--the band can't get any smaller, so de Chassy has released a record for piano ...

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Piano Solo

Label: Bee Jazz
Released: 2007
Track listing: Slava; Cantique; Valse Dombelle; Ugly Beauty; Lune; Valse Bulgare; En Attendant Constance; Parenthese; Recapitulons; I Wish I Knew.

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Guillaume de Chassy: Piano Solo

Read "Piano Solo" reviewed by Budd Kopman


Piano Solo, which took a long time to come to fruition, is a marvelous set that manages, in a mysterious way, to convey as much about pianist Guillaume de Chassy through his music as the wonderful interview does through words. The relationship between music and words is complex and writing or talking about ...

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Article: Interview

Guillaume de Chassy: The Ugly and the Beautiful

Read "Guillaume de Chassy: The Ugly and the Beautiful" reviewed by Jeff Dayton-Johnson


February 2007, Paris: Pianist Guillaume de Chassy has just recorded his first solo piano album and he is performing an entirely solo set at the Archipel theater to celebrate its release. If he's nervous, it doesn't show; he jokes easily with the appreciative crowd, leading them through the by-ways of the musical journey that led him ...

Album

Wonderful World

Label: Un Rêve Nu
Released: 2005


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