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Jean-Michel Pilc: What Is This Thing Called?
I trenta bozzetti musicali proposti rivelano una mente aperta nello sciorinare con souplesse interpretativa un pensiero pianistico trasversale che tocca vari lidi: Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, Martial Solal, Cecil Taylor. In primo piano un gusto raffinato del procedimento improvvisativo che porta il musicista francese a mimetizzare gli standard di Porter e John Coltrane dall'alto di una variegata tavolozza melodica ed armonica.
I brani vanno attentamente ascoltati per scorgervi un flusso continuo di idee. Come in un montaggio cinematografico le aleatorie cellule tematiche sono raccolte, riprese e sviluppate con senso destrutturante della forma. La breve durata di molte composizioni lascia già presagire la presenza di piccole particelle che vanno e vengono per tutto il CD, fino a cambiare forma, sostanza e linguaggio. La bussola ritmica del disco oscilla freneticamente tra cambi di velocità, accelerazioni e decelerazioni ritmiche. Ne vien fuori un ammaliante progetto dalla coerenza esemplare.
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Track Listing
C Scale Warm Up; What Is This Thing Called Love; Cole; Dawn; Walk; Run; Glide; Look; Cross; Giant; Time; Prelude; Duet Vox; Waves; Martial; Duke; Factor; More; Quick; Odd; Grace; Float; High; Ode; Chimes; Dance Elegy; Bells; Swing; Now You Know What Love Is.
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Jean-Michel Pilc
pianoJean-Michel Pilc: piano
Album information
Title: What Is This Thing Called? | Year Released: 2015 | Record Label: Sunnyside Records
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