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Article: Album Review

Guillaume de Chassy / Daniel Yvinec: Songs From The Last Century

Read "Songs From The Last Century" reviewed by Jeff Dayton-Johnson

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
June 3, 2009

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 ...

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Article: Year in Review

Jeff Dayton-Johnson's Best of 2008

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
January 11, 2009

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

By Guillaume de Chassy

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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Guillaum de Chassy: Faraway So Close

Read "Faraway So Close" reviewed by Budd Kopman

by Budd Kopman
July 18, 2008

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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Guillaume de Chassy: Faraway So Close

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

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
March 29, 2008

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

By Guillaume de Chassy

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

by Budd Kopman
August 18, 2007

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

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
April 9, 2007

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 ...

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