[TR24][OF] Jacky Terrasson - 53 - 2019 (piano jazz, contemporary jazz, post-bop)

#777Джеки Террассон (настоящее имя Жак Лоран Террассон, фр. Jacques-Laurent Terrasson; род. 27 ноября 1966, Западный Берлин) — французский джазовый пианист. Он родился в Западном Берлине, но его мать — американка, а отец — француз. Он учился в Музыкальном колледже Беркли, одновременно выступая в чикагских и нью-йоркских клубах. В 27 лет Джеки Террассон получил приз на престижнейшем конкурсе пианистов имени Телониуса Монка в Вашингтоне и подписал контракт с всемирно известным лейблом «Blue Note». Террассон вошел в список тридцати самых перспективных джазовых музыкантов мира по версии газеты «New York Times». Творческая биография Джеки Террасона ослепляет престижным сотрудничеством с такими великими деятелями как Dee Dee Bridgewater, Dianne Reeves, Jimmy Scott, Charles Aznavour и многими другими. Плодотворно работал с Betty Carter в 1997, а также участвовал в записи альбома Cassandra Wilson — Rendezvous. Его совместный проект с Ugonna Okegwo (бас-гитара) и Leon Parker (ударные) признан одним из лучших джазовых трио. Джеки Террассон регулярно выступает solo и в трио на больших джазовых фестивалях (Монреаль, Сан-Франциско, Монтрё, Северный морской джаз, Марсиак). Его концерты – это всегда большое событие в любой стране Азии, Европы и Америки. Как один из величайших джазовых пианистов своего поколения, Джеки Террассон соблазняет новаторским толкованием самых известных произведений джаза, поп, классической музыки и своих собственных композиций. Его импровизации всегда чрезвычайно изобретательны и уникальны. Джеки создает свой собственный стиль, который раскрывается в тонкостях и свежести приемов, в легкости и виртуозности исполнения.
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Террассон,_Джеки

#777Jacky Terrasson was born on November 27, 1965 in Germany. His mother, an interior designer, is American and his father, a computer specialist, is French. He lives in Paris until the age of twenty, and studied at Lycée Lamartine. He began studying classical piano at the age of five, and was introduced to jazz with Jeff Gardner and Francis Paudras, photographer and amateur pianist, Bud Powell's friend. In 1984, on the advice of Francis Paudras, he received a two-semester scholarship to study jazz at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. There he meets pianists Ray Santisi (en) and Danilo Pérez, saxophonist Javon Jackson (en), and guitarist Mark Whitfield. He performs regularly at Wally's, a Boston jazz club, where he plays the B-3 organ, before getting a ten-month engagement at Blondie's, a Chicago club, with bassist Dennis Carroll. He returned to France in 1988 to do his military service as a paratrooper bartender, "a complete waste of time", continues to perform in clubs, and accompanies touring singers Dee Dee Bridgewater and Abbey Lincoln. He returned to New York in 1990 where he joined Art Taylor's group for a year and a half. In 1993, he won the prestigious Thelonious Monk International Jazz Piano Competition. That same year, he met Betty Carter at the recording session of his friend Javon Jackson's debut album "When The Time is Right", and accompanied him on a 10-month world tour. In 1995 The New York Times quotes Jacky Terrasson "among the artists who could change the jazz culture of the next thirty years," and several record companies are beginning to take an interest in the young pianist. It is finally with the Blue Note Label that an agreement is found. In 1998, he participated in Betty Carter's Jazz Ahead, an international residency of jazz musicians and composers at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington. Jacky Terrasson has long collaborated with drummer and percussionist Leon Parker and bassist Ugonna Okegwo in the trio he leads. In 2012, he hires two young American musicians in his new band: the bass player Burniss Earl Travis (Robert Glasper, Logan Richardson, Tony Tixier ...) and the drummer Justin Faulkner (Branford Marsalis, Kurt Rosenwinkel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacky_Terrasson

Jacky Terrasson - 53
With 53, the 15th album in a recording career that has now spanned 25 years since his stunning self-titled debut on Blue Note in 1994, the pianist and composer Jacky Terrasson presents a magnificent collection of original pieces in the form of an intimate confession, brought to life by a varied cast of trio mates, and performed at a level of mastery that places Terrasson among of the greatest artists in Jazz. Hear the tracks “The Call,” dedicated to Ahmad Jamal, and “Palindrome,” which was fortuitously released today 9.13.19 (WBGO’s Nate Chinen had some fun with that), ahead of the album’s September 27 release.
“Why 53? Simply because I conceived of and recorded this music during my 53rd year, and on this occasion I wanted to make a record that really reflected me,” explains Terrasson. “At the age of 53, a man begins to feel he has reached a form of maturity, is at his peak, and so can look at life with a certain distance and see things more clearly. With this record I wanted to give everything of myself, to take risks, while assuming my career, my artistic choices, my life … and my age!”
53 is an album unlike any other in his acclaimed and prolific career. It is a work signaling a turning point in his life in which the pianist dares to venture into the intimacy of his own life story, while throwing himself resolutely into the unknown with new collaborations and new artistic gambles.
The result is a collection of 16 tracks that are magnified by precise arrangements. Terrasson takes his listeners on a tour of his musical aesthetics: varying moods, styles, rhythms and references which create a kaleidoscopic universe of sounds. Included are tributes to the pantheon of great masters: notably Keith Jarrett with “Kiss Jannett for Me,” and Ahmad Jamal with the compelling opening theme “The Call,” which sets a high bar for the album from which it never comes down.
To bring to life this remarkably rich and diverse material, Terrasson brought on a range of able collaborators to explore the particular character of each theme through its colors and subtle harmonic textures. After years of experimenting in the studio with varied ensembles Terrasson was intent on creating an intimate balance on 53 and decided to return to the canonical format of a piano-bass-drums trio. Yes – the trio – Terrasson’s preferred mode of musical expression since his debut album introduced the young phenom alongside bassist Ugonna Okegwo and drummer Leon Parker. “The trio is really the ideal formula for me, the one where I feel most free and which I believe allows the richest potential in creativity between individual expression and collective interaction. What I also like is the perfect blend of tone and material: the wood and the skin of the drums, the bass string of the double bass, the ivory of the keyboard… All these materials have a special color and feel which together form a sort of sensuality that I find very stimulating!”
Initially the idea was to record the entire album with a brand-new rhythm section made up of Géraud Portal on electric bass and Ali Jackson on drums, but the pianist instead decided to multiply the perspectives to better underline the kaleidoscopic richness of his music by introducing two other talented rhythmic pairs into the project. On one hand we have Sylvain Romano on double-bass and Gregory Hutchinson on drums, and on the other, we have Thomas Bramerie on double-bass and Lukmil Perez on drums. “I felt the need for this diversity of approach in order to lend substance to the different facets of my compositions. But I didn’t want anyone to think I was introducing a new official trio! It wasn’t my goal and so no room for ambiguity. All the extraordinary musicians that I invited onto this album were chosen for their musicality and their ability to bring something special to what I do. In my opinion, the result is fantastic.”
http://www.bluenote.com/jacky-terrasson-returns-to-blue-note-with-his-new-album-53-out-9-27/

Jacky Terrasson – piano
Sylvain Romano – double-bass
Gregory Hutchinson – drums
Thomas Bramerie – double-bass
Lukmil Perez – drums