Results for "Jean-Michel Pilc"

Article: Album Review

Jean-Michel Pilc: Symphony

by Dan Bilawsky
March 20, 2023

On November 28, 2021, at the completion of a two-day recording session for Galician saxophonist Xose Miguélez's Contradictio (Origin, 2022) at CARA-OJM Studios in Matosinhos, Portugal, pianist Jean-Michel Pilc had a little time on his hands. And with a gorgeous Steinway right in front of him, beautiful acoustics in the room and engineer José Trincado at ...

Article: Multiple Reviews

Choose Joy

by John Chacona
March 2, 2023

What should music sound like as the world emerges from the musical Ice Age of the pandemic years? An elegiac tone is an inevitable and perhaps necessary acknowledgment of the desolation of those years. Equally valid is an expression of joy and gratitude for the transformative power of music to heal and uplift. In their own ...

Album

Contradictio

By Xose Miguelez

Label: Origin Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Meniña; You and the Night and the Music; Ontology; Contradictio; Someday My Monk Will Come; But Not for Me; Soul and Body; Out of Nowhere; Galicia; Ontology (duo).

Article: Album Review

Xose Miguelez: Contradictio

by Hrayr Attarian
June 22, 2022

Galician composer and saxophonist Xose Miguelez has established himself as a mainstay of the international jazz scene. His superb second release as leader, Contradictio, showcases his talents to the full. A taut quartet session, it consists of inventive originals and clever arrangements of standards. Well- versed in bop and his own ethnic music, Miguelez excitingly fuses ...

Song of the Day

Meniña

March 18, 2022

Album: Contradictio
By Xose Miguelez
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2022
Duration: 06:39

Article: Album Review

Fred Hersch: Breath By Breath

by John Chacona
January 7, 2022

Why is Fred Hersch not sufficiently mentioned among the great jazz pianists? It could be a generational thing. At 66, Hersch is an eminent tweener, too old to qualify as the Hot New Thing and too young to be an Elder Statesman. He's in good company there with fellow sexagenarians Myra Melford, Satoko Fujii, Uri Caine, ...

Video

Lune de miel

Featuring the music of Mireille Boily
Duration: 1:07
October 28, 2021

Jazz En Rafale Live presents Montreal-based and internationally acclaimed vocalist Mireille Boily with Jean-Michel Pilc (piano), Érik Hove (saxophone), Rémi-Jean Leblanc (bass) and Louis-Vincent Hamel (drums) from Les Studios Piccolo. Purchase tickets to the on demand version here. Jazz En Rafale runs from October 9 to December 18, so check here for upcoming shows.

Article: Profile

The 55 Bar: Music and Stories

by Ludovico Granvassu
September 27, 2021

All About Jazz celebrates the iconic 55 Bar and the essential role it plays as an establishment where bands are born and sounds shaped over time thanks to its longstanding commitment to jazz. Adored by patrons and musicians since the '80s, the 55 Bar has faced difficult economic challenges during the pandemic and as a result, ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

The 55 Bar Mixtape

by Ludovico Granvassu
September 27, 2021

All About Jazz celebrates the iconic 55 Bar and the essential role it plays as an establishment where bands are born and sounds shaped over time thanks to its longstanding commitment to jazz. Adored by patrons and musicians since the '80s, the 55 Bar has faced difficult economic challenges during the pandemic and as a result, ...

Album

Dressed in a Song

By JD Walter

Label: JWAL Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Dressed In A Song (Taylor Eigsti: piano); You Go To My Head (Jim Ridl: piano); The Last Muse (Obed Calvaire: percussion; Becca Stevens vocals; Ben Wolfe: bass; Julius Rodriguez: piano); What The World Needs Now (Orrin Evans: piano); Brother John (Marc Cary: piano); Can It Be Done? (Jean Michel Pilc: piano); All Through The Night.