Jacky Terrasson
January News
05/01/10 12:25
Nous vous souhaitons une belle et heureuse année 2010 ! Beaucoup de beaux projets en tournée cette année. Les tournées de John McLaughlin and the 4th Dimension en Europe et aux Etats-Unis et un prochain disque à paraître au Printemps, les nouveaux disques de Jacky Terrasson (avril 2010) et de Dominic Miller (Février 2010), de Yaron Herman (Automne 2010).
De belles tournées annoncées au Printemps et cet Eté, avec notamment, le nouveau projet de Diane Tell « Dr Boris et Mr Vian » (direction musicale Laurent de Wilde), le duo Spirabassi et le fabuleux trio Mirabassi-Renzi-Parker (en tour en Mars-Avril) et le nouveau trio de Jacky Terrasson (Mars, Avril,Mai, Eté) sans oublier le duo Michel Portal - Lionel Loueke !
We wish you a happy 2010 ! Once again, we will have very nice projects on tour this year. John McLaughlin’s 4th Dimension on tour in Europe and in the US, and a new album to be released in Spring. New albums also for Jacky Terrasson (April- Concord Jazz), Dominic Miller (February) and Yaron Herman (Fall).
Very nice upcoming tours, Diane Tell "Dr Boris et Mr Vian" (musical direction Laurent de Wilde), Spirabassi duo and the Mirabassi Renzi Parker (March-April), Jacky Terrasson's new trio (March, April, May, Summer) without forgetting to mention the new duet Michel Portal and Lionel Loueke.
January Concerts
(please check the concerts pages on this website to see all the concerts)
EMILE PARISIEN QUARTET
12/01/10 Charleville Charleville Mézières France Emile Parisien Quartet
SPIRABASSI
14/01/10 Schiltigheim Le Cheval Blanc France Spirabassi
JACKY TERRASSON
15/01/10 Ankara Private Concert Turkey Jacky Terrasson Solo
17/01/10 Ankara Bilkent Turkey Jacky Terrasson Trio
18/01/10 Izmir Turkey Jacky Terrasson Solo
21/01/10 Istanbul Turkey Jacky Terrasson Solo
December News
07/12/09 11:42
December Newsletter
John McLaughlin
Nous sommes heureux de vous annoncer que John McLaughlin a reçu le prestigieux prix Haafiz Ali Khan le 24 Novembre dernier à Mumbai, en Inde, pour sa contribution au monde musical. "Je suis extrêmement touché de rejoindre la famille des musiciens illustres à avoir reçu ce prix auparavant" a déclaré John à l'issue de la cérémonie. M. S. Subbulakshmi, Ustad Bismillah Khan, Ustad Vilayat Khan, Anne Sophie Mutter, John Williams, Julian Bream, Pandit Bhimsen Joshi pour n'en citer que quelques uns avaient reçu les années précédentes cette remarquable distinction.
We are happy to announce John McLaughlin won the prestigious Haafiz Ali Khan Award 2009 for his contribution to the world of music ! "It is humbling to be put in the illustustrious line-up of people who have received this award," says Mc Laughlin. The past receipts include M. S. Subbulakshmi, Ustad Bismillah Khan, Ustad Vilayat Khan, Anne Sophie Mutter, John Williams, Julian Bream, Pandit Bhimsen Joshi amongst others.
Nous sommes heureux de vous annoncer également la nomination au Grammy Award du disque "Five Peace Band - Live Chick Corea & John McLaughlin" dans la catégorie Meilleur Album de Jazz Instrumental de l'Année.
We are glad to announce “Five Peace Band – Live Chick Corea & John McLaughlin” got a Grammy Nomination as Best Jazz Instrumental Album of the Year.
"The 4th Dimension" (John McLaughlin, Etienne Mbappé, Gary Husband, Mark Mondésir) viennent d'enregistrer leur prochain disque, avec le nouveau bassiste du groupe Etienne Mbappé. L'album sortira au Printemps prochain en même temps que la tournée Européenne d'Avril-Mai sur le label Mediastarz. La liste des concerts est annoncée dans cette newsletter dans la rubrique Concerts. Le groupe visitera les plus grandes villes et festivals d'Europe.
Le band sera également en tour en Nov-Dec 2010, un tour proposé par notre partenaire américain Ted Kurland & Associates.
The 4th Dimension Band (John McLaughlin, Etienne Mbappé, Gary Husband, Mark Mondésir) were in studio at the end of November to record their new album, featuring the new bass player Etienne Mbappé. The album will be released for their European Tour in April-May 2010 (label Mediastarz). The list of concerts is announced in this newsletter in the Concerts Sections, we will attend the major cities and festivals in Europe.
The band will also tour in the US in Nov-Dec 2010, a tour booked by our US partner Ted Kurland & Associates.
December Concerts
(please check the concerts pages on this website to see all the concerts)
YARON HERMAN
02/12/09 Duc des Lombards Paris France Yaron Herman Trio
05/12/09 Nuit des Musiciens Paris France Invité de Rhoda Scott
10/12/09 Eglise de Cabourg Cabourg France Yaron Herman Solo
11/12/09 Théâtre Hyères France Yaron Herman Solo
12/12/09 Theatre Diden Grenoble France Yaron Herman Solo
14/12/09 Django d'or Paris France Yaron Herman Solo
JACKY TERRASSON
10/12/09 The Art of Jazz Piano Hamburg Germany Jacky Terrasson Trio
11/12/09 Cahors France Jacky Terrasson Trio
12/12/09 La Chesnaie Chailles France Jacky Terrasson Solo
October/Octobre News
01/10/09 14:33
John McLaughlin will record a new album at the end of November. The band will be the "'4th Dimension" with Etienne Mbappé (bass), Gary Husband (Keyboards, Drums) and Mark Mondésir (Drums). The album will be available for the Spring Tour in Europe on Mediastarz.
Jacky Terrasson just recorded his new album in New-York with Ben Williams (bass) who just won the Thelonious Monk Bass Competition, Jamire Williams (drums) and special guests, Gregoire Maret (harmonica), Jacques Schwartz-Bart (saxophone), and Cyro Baptista (percussions). Release Date Spring 2010 - Concord Jazz.
Les Enfants du Jazz est un site réalisé par un enfant qui va faire aimer le jazz aux enfants ! Charles Deghelt, 12 ans nous a concocté une programmation musicale étonnante et des interviews des grands jazzmen de ce monde ! l'émission peut être écoutée intégralement en ligne et devrait rejoindre les ondes prochainement.
Dominic Miller will release in February 2010 a new album "November" where he has invited Yaron Herman.
Selection of Upcoming Concerts
(please check the concerts pages on this website to see all the concerts)
- October 23rd : Monty Alexander Trio - La Cigale - Paris - France (Festival Care Fusion)
- October 23rd: Jacky Terrasson Trio - Jazzèbre - Perpignan - France
- October 24th : Yaron Herman Trio - Sumida Triphony Hall - Tokyo - Japan
- October 24th : Michel Portal & Lionel Loueke - Jazz en Tête - Clermont-Ferrand - France
- October 27th & 28th : Monty Alexander Trio - Amadeux - Bordeaux - France
- October 31st : Michel Portal & Yaron Herman - Koln - Germany
Jacky Terrasson / Video Concert Marciac
08/08/09 14:43
Jacky Terrasson - 20 heures TF1
06/08/09 11:21
Jacky Terrasson - New-York Times
27/06/09 12:33
A Lament for Jackson, Followed by Dashes of Funk, Hip-Hop and Sheer Groove
Effervescence is a renewable resource for the pianist Jacky Terrasson. His playing can suggest a dazzling plenitude, all cascading fizz and chordal rumble, without any threshold of exhaustion. He always has more where that came from, and on a good night he can make it feel boisterously engaging: less like an arrangement of accumulated gestures than like a tidal surge of bright ideas, one crashing right after another.
Richard Perry/The New York Times
Jacky Terrasson on Thursday at Iridium, where he played a solemn “Beat It” as well as originals and other covers.
Mr. Terrasson had a spectacularly good night on Thursday at the Iridium. His first set easily reached the high bar he set in the 1990s, when he was leading one of jazz’s freshest and most celebrated trios. His current trio — with the bassist Ben Williams and the drummer Jamire Williams, a pair of superbly responsive younger players whose only relation is musical — is now gathering just as much momentum, with its own style.
Groove, more than swing, propels that style, but in the most adaptable of ways. Thursday’s set began with Mr. Terrasson alone, maintaining a rippling tremolo with both hands. After a while he introduced a slow bass-clef vamp, moving incrementally out of his fog. It took just a moment before the theme came into focus: he was playing “Beat It,” in tribute to Michael Jackson, whose death had only just been confirmed.
There was no smirk onstage, nor the faintest snicker from the crowd: the sobriety of the performance was absolute. Gradually, though, Mr. Terrasson relaxed his elegiac tone and locked on a brisk tempo with bass and drums, adding the occasional stop-time syncopation. Fingers splayed, fluttering, Mr. Terrasson soon ducked into the jazz standard “Body and Soul,” still riding the same fluid pulse. He modulated through several keys before returning finally to his Jacksonian ode, and an air of quiet lamentation.
The churchlike harmonies of that coda made several more appearances in the set. One original, bearing the title “My Church,” began with serenely tolling chords, voiced to suggest prettiness in the high register and a flickering unrest below. (That flicker eventually led to flame, as the trio made strenuous sport of agitation.) And a gospel-esque slow-funk tune — Mr. Terrasson announced it as “Gaux Girl,” with a dedication to his daughter — evoked the earthier side of Keith Jarrett in the 1970s. (It so happens Mr. Terrasson now has the same hairstyle that Mr. Jarrett did then, and a similar habit of groaning as he plays.)
Mr. Terrasson’s leadership was always clear, but his partners hardly seemed subservient: their playing was assertive and flexible, reflecting a full command of hip-hop rhythmic inflection. Crucially, they also share Mr. Terrasson’s fundamentals: both Williamses sounded right at home on “You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To,” a dash of swinging post-bop that arrived precisely when it was needed, and not a moment too soon.
Performances continue through Sunday at Iridium Jazz Club, 1650 Broadway, at 51st Street; (212) 582-2121, iridiumjazzclub.com.
- By NATE CHINEN
Effervescence is a renewable resource for the pianist Jacky Terrasson. His playing can suggest a dazzling plenitude, all cascading fizz and chordal rumble, without any threshold of exhaustion. He always has more where that came from, and on a good night he can make it feel boisterously engaging: less like an arrangement of accumulated gestures than like a tidal surge of bright ideas, one crashing right after another.
Richard Perry/The New York Times
Jacky Terrasson on Thursday at Iridium, where he played a solemn “Beat It” as well as originals and other covers.
Mr. Terrasson had a spectacularly good night on Thursday at the Iridium. His first set easily reached the high bar he set in the 1990s, when he was leading one of jazz’s freshest and most celebrated trios. His current trio — with the bassist Ben Williams and the drummer Jamire Williams, a pair of superbly responsive younger players whose only relation is musical — is now gathering just as much momentum, with its own style.
Groove, more than swing, propels that style, but in the most adaptable of ways. Thursday’s set began with Mr. Terrasson alone, maintaining a rippling tremolo with both hands. After a while he introduced a slow bass-clef vamp, moving incrementally out of his fog. It took just a moment before the theme came into focus: he was playing “Beat It,” in tribute to Michael Jackson, whose death had only just been confirmed.
There was no smirk onstage, nor the faintest snicker from the crowd: the sobriety of the performance was absolute. Gradually, though, Mr. Terrasson relaxed his elegiac tone and locked on a brisk tempo with bass and drums, adding the occasional stop-time syncopation. Fingers splayed, fluttering, Mr. Terrasson soon ducked into the jazz standard “Body and Soul,” still riding the same fluid pulse. He modulated through several keys before returning finally to his Jacksonian ode, and an air of quiet lamentation.
The churchlike harmonies of that coda made several more appearances in the set. One original, bearing the title “My Church,” began with serenely tolling chords, voiced to suggest prettiness in the high register and a flickering unrest below. (That flicker eventually led to flame, as the trio made strenuous sport of agitation.) And a gospel-esque slow-funk tune — Mr. Terrasson announced it as “Gaux Girl,” with a dedication to his daughter — evoked the earthier side of Keith Jarrett in the 1970s. (It so happens Mr. Terrasson now has the same hairstyle that Mr. Jarrett did then, and a similar habit of groaning as he plays.)
Mr. Terrasson’s leadership was always clear, but his partners hardly seemed subservient: their playing was assertive and flexible, reflecting a full command of hip-hop rhythmic inflection. Crucially, they also share Mr. Terrasson’s fundamentals: both Williamses sounded right at home on “You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To,” a dash of swinging post-bop that arrived precisely when it was needed, and not a moment too soon.
Performances continue through Sunday at Iridium Jazz Club, 1650 Broadway, at 51st Street; (212) 582-2121, iridiumjazzclub.com.
Le Blog de Pierre de Chocqueuse
09/02/09 16:15
Voilà un site à garder dans ses favoris, depuis quelques mois, notre ami Pierre de Chocqueuse (écrivain et journaliste à Jazzman et grand spécialiste des pianistes à nos yeux) écrit dans son blog « Blog de Choc » toutes ses bonnes notes (qu’il prend minutieusement pendant les concerts), chronique les sorties de disques, agrémentés de ses photos, un contenu très vivant, sympathique et très agréable à lire. Le blog est bien ficelé, avec une syndication RSS qui permet d’être averti des nouvelles publications. Chaleureusement recommandé.
Avec sa permission, le compte-rendu du concert de Jacky Terrasson lors de son passage à Paris au Sunside :
Depuis lundi, Jacky Terrasson occupe le Sunside. Il s’y sent chez lui et invente soir après soir en solo. Le blues nourrit ses lignes mélodiques, mais Jacky utilise un vocabulaire harmonique très varié dont les racines plongent aussi dans la musique classique européenne. On ne sait jamais ce qu’il va jouer. Lui non plus. Une belle page romantique succède à un prélude dissonant. De notes puissamment martelées sort une mélodie de rêve, une miniature sonore aussi fugace que belle. Tel un magicien, Jacky tire de son chapeau un splendide Over the Rainbow et lui imprime un doux balancement. La main droite, légère, ornemente, en détache sensuellement les notes essentielles. Un vieux blues bancal et burlesque introduit You’ve Got a Friend de Carole King. Take the A Train hérite d’un tempo lent et chaloupé. Une composition sans titre se mâtine de rythmes afro-cubains. Les doigts font danser les notes, leur imposent des cadences hypnotiques. Après un Caravan très percussif, le deuxième set de la soirée célèbre longuement le blues. Jacky en esquisse les phrases, leur donne rythme et respiration avant d’en bousculer les accords dans un jeu très physique. Les notes se font puissantes, gonflent et s’étalent comme des vagues. Celles de I Love you More, une ultime ballade, apaisent et mettent en joie.
texte et photo Pierre de Chocqueuse
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Tout sauf des Bleus chez Blue Note !
05/02/09 10:55
Un article très intéressant de Bruno Pfeiffer dans Libération sur le 70ième anniversaire du prestigieux label Blue Note, l’occasion de vous annoncer un concert All Stars Blue Note au théâtre du Chatelet avec Jacky Terrasson, Ron Carter, Joe Lovano et Stéphano Di Battista, le 30 mars prochain dans le cadre du Bose-Blue Note Festival.
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