Pierre de Bethmann Trio

Pierre de Bethmann Trio – Essais, Volume 4 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 47:12 minutes | 952 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © ALEA

Yet this is the bias of a trio proud of nearly seven years of continuous activity, obviously suddenly upset since the beginning of 2020 by the circumstances that the whole world is experiencing.

Far from the idea that silence is the only solution, it is therefore always a question of standards, coming from multiple traditions, and explored according to an approach essentially marked by the happiness of concerts.

A particularly fruitful recording session of September 2019 had resulted in a first selection forming Volume 3; the second form this volume 4.
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Pierre de Bethmann Trio – Essais Volume 2 (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 54:00 minutes | 1,05 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © ALEA

Finally, it’s more than just his secret garden. It’s some kind of necessity, his oxygen. And as without oxygen, you know how it goes… In short, the piano/bass/drums trio is viscerally anchored in Pierre de Bethmann’s DNA. Here’s further proof with the second volume of his Essais (Essays), two years and many concerts after the release of the first, in 2015. With double bass player Sylvain Romano and drummer Tony Rabeson, the former Prysm explores once again various musical traditions, submitting each one of them to choose different arrangement options. The height of delicacy and mastered groove, Essais / Volume 2 gathers the revisiting of pieces drawn from 1707 to 1985, written by various composers born on the two sides of the Atlantic. Here, Eric Dolphy crosses paths with Ravel as well with Alain Goraguer, the Chant des partisans, Handel, George Shearing and even Laurent Voulzy. You end up thinking that Pierre de Bethmann’s piano sounds more and more beautiful. The rhythmic radicalness of the Prysm era seems like a distant memory when listening to his interpretation of a classic like I Remember You. Different times, different music, different necessities. The science of swing and sound reaches here true summits of refinement, like an enchanted parenthesis to stop the vain celerity of the era. And thus it is essential…
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