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Kite Flight

By Jacques Chanier Trio

Label: La Ronde Music
Released: 2000
Track listing: Two Blues in One; Na

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Jacques Chanier Trio: Kite Flight

by Jim Santella
November 1, 2000

Throughout its album of Jacques Chanier’s compositions, this Boston-based trio improvises with meaningful dialogue. Brushes swirl complacently around “Quiet Memories” while piano and bass stroll along a meandering path. “Blue Bec” integrates jazz with classical, while “Naïve Cat” infuses a folk song quality. Chanier’s title track moves briskly through one scene after another with seamless motion. ...

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Jacques Chanier Trio: Kite Flight

Read "Kite Flight" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
November 1, 2000

If Exuberance is defined as uninhibited enthusiasm, pianist Jacques Chanier’s original outing as a leader can be defined as exhilarating. The Paris (France not Texas) born, Berklee-schooled Boston resident has immersed himself in the American medium know as jazz. Specifically bebop, post-bop, contemplative, Shorter-esqe jazz. His prior recordings as sideman were with the Henry Cook Band, ...

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Jacques Chanier Trio: Kite Flight

by Glenn Astarita
November 1, 2000

The piano trio format gets a boost with this new recording by the Boston-based “Jacques Chanier Trio”. On Kite Flight, pianist Jacques Chanier, bassist Thomson Kneeland and drummer Brooke Sofferman interject prominent doses of grandeur and verve into this set consisting of ten Chanier original compositions. Essentially, the music zips by at an often-whirlwind pace. Other ...