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Dreyfus Records: Crossing Continents with Music
by Jakob Baekgaard
Music, at its best, has the ability to reach across boundaries of nationality, gender and age. If there's a message in music, it's about communication, and about getting to the essence of everything: the beating pulse of a human heart. In an increasingly commercial market, where it has become more important to make music that opens ...
The 22nd Edition of Earshot Jazz Festival: October 15 to November 7, 2010
Seattle's annual Earshot Jazz Festival returns October 15 and continues through November 7 with more than 50 distinctive concert events in venues all around the city. “Seattle's most important annual jazz event" —Downbeat Known for “adventurous, spot-on programming" (Jazz Times) and praised as “one of the best festivals in America" (Seattle Times) the Earshot Jazz Festival ...
Jean-Michel Pilc: True Story
by AAJ Italy Staff
Questo CD è fatto di finezze. L'iniziale “The Other Night" detta le regole. Il richiamo di note è suadente. Keith Jarrett al meglio dell'ispirazione? Chissà. Le poche note ripetute e poi esaltate dai lievi sibili percussivi di Billy Hart sembrano riassumere i silenzi di notte solitarie e introspettive. “La musica parla più delle parole," recita il ...
Jean-Michel Pilc: Room to improv
Virtuosic pianist Jean-Michel Pilc finds success by following intuition Mathematics and music are often seen as complementary fields, realms governed by beautifully confluent systems of logic. But for Jean-Michel Pilc--an aerospace engineer by training and jazz pianist by calling--music exists in a universe apart, where intuitive communion on the bandstand transcends the left-brain's dominion. Self-taught and ...
Jean-Michel Pilc: True Story
by Karl Ackermann
Jean-Michel Pilc has yet to achieve a US prominence that compares to his fellow French jazz pianists, the late Michel Petrucciani and Algerian-born Martial Solal. While both of the latter musicians are frequently cited for their lightning-fast delivery, Pilc shares their agility as well as a finely honed ear for lyricism. But ultimately, Pilc is a ...
Undead Jazz Festival: Kenny's Castaways Edition
by Daniel Lehner
Every zombie film fan knows that being bitten by a creature of the night is a fate worse than death. The only cure is to have a member of your party load up a shotgun and take you out before you turn into a limping, brain-hungry shell of a person. So giving an event a header ...
Take Five with Julian Waterfall Pollack
by AAJ Staff
Meet Julian Waterfall Pollack:At the age of twenty-one, New York pianist Julian Waterfall Pollack has the jazz community abuzz with his mature, technically ferocious, and dynamic piano playing. Among his many accomplishments, Pollack was featured on Marian McPartland's renowned NPR show, Piano Jazz, at age eighteen. He has performed internationally ...
Jean-Michel Pilc Trio - 'True Story' CD Release Performance at the Iridium in NYC Wednesday May 26th, 2010.
Jean-Michel Pilc Trio - 'True Story' CD Release May 26th, 2010 - 8:00 PM & 10:00 PM Jean-Michel Pilc, piano / Boris Kozlov, bass / Billy Hart, drums “a musical genius at work." -Eric Brace, The Washington Post “Pilc ranks among today's titans of the instrument" -Howard Reich, Chicago Tribune “Mr Pilc seems to have dropped ...
Jean-Michel Pilc: True Story
by Joel Roberts
Paris-born pianist Jean-Michel Pilc continues his impressive series of Dreyfus Jazz releases with True Story, his first album since 2006's New Dreams and the debut effort for his exciting new trio featuring respected veteran drummer Billy Hart and talented Russian-born bassist Boris Kozlov. The 49-year-old Pilc, a resident of New York for the past 15 years, ...
Dreyfus Jazz Presents European Modernists: Jean-Michel Pilc Tour
Jean-Michel PILC 'True Story' (DRY CD 36950) Street Date April 20, 2010 Aldo Romano 'Origine' (DRY CD 36947) Street Date April 20, 2010 Rosario Giuliani 'Lennie's Pennies' (DRY CD 36952) Street Date April 20, 2010 Philip Catherine 'Capbreton' (DRY CD 36941) Street Date May 18, 2010 Jazz, once ...
