Home » Search Center » Results: Steve Amirault
Results for "Steve Amirault"
Jonathan Orland Debuts with "Homes"
Born and raised in Paris, Jonathan Orland started playing music during his childhood, starting with piano and clarinet. He got interested in Jazz in his early teenage years, and started learning by himself the saxophone before taking lessons with Thomas Savy, Tom Buckner and André Villégier and Antoine Daurès. Then he passed his music studies diploma ...
Steve Amirault: One Existence, Two Voices
by Pascal-Denis Lussier
Initially, I was disappointed to find out that pianist Steve Amirault was taking this new direction. Jazz singers have never really been my thing. Anyone that knows me knows I have a penchant for the lyric-less stuff--music that breaks all bounds, and language tends to impose extreme restrictions. Nonetheless, despite my own usual preferences, I'm always ...
Breath
Label: Effendi Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Breath; Acceptance; Between Dreams; Forgiveness; Je vois Clementine danser; Society
Intrigue; It'll Be OK; If We Believe In Love; At the End of the Day.
Steve Amirault: Breath
by Budd Kopman
Steve Amirault has produced a fine piano trio album in Breath. He's not a tricky player, but his music brims with emotion; his melodies and style reflect a very personal means of expression with little that would be called straight-ahead jazz. Though Amirault clearly has the chops, his playing is not about showing off or using ...
Breath
Label: Effendi Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Breath; Acceptance; Between Dreams; Forgiveness; Je Vois Cl
Steve Amirault: Breath
by John Kelman
Gradually, and with little fanfare, the Canadian Effendi label has been amassing a substantial catalogue of contemporary jazz with special focus on Montreal's vibrant scene. That's not to suggest that all its artists are born and bred Montrealers. Pianist John Roney--heard recently on saxophonist Remi Bolduc's Cote D'écoute (Effendi, 2005)--originally comes from Toronto, while saxophonist Christine ...
