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Guillaume de Chassy / Daniel Yvinec: Songs From The Last Century
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Pianist Guillaume de Chassy and bassist Daniel Yvinec tend to be rigorously conceptual in their approach to making records. Previous albums revolved around the jazz treatment of classic French chansons on Chansons sous les bombes (Bee Jazz, 2004), a documentary-like set of jazz chestnuts with vocals contributed by New Yorkers encountered on the street on Wonderful ...
Jeff Dayton-Johnson's Best of 2008
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 ...
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.
Guillaum de Chassy: Faraway So Close
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 ...
Guillaume de Chassy: Faraway So Close
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 ...
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.
Guillaume de Chassy: Piano Solo
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 ...
Guillaume de Chassy: The Ugly and the Beautiful
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 ...
