Thierry Maillard – Maman (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 42:27 minutes | 774 MB | Genre: Contemporary Jazz, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ilona Records
To tell the truth, it is above all the news of his performances that pushes me to write these few words precisely today (see calendar below). There is indeed the timing of an artist who prevails, because he must ensure his concerts, release his albums, but there is also also life that goes on and this formidable expression that imposes itself, whatever it is: the show must go on! And for Thierry Maillard, this is exactly that … a musician of whom we are used to saying the greatest good, whether solo, with his MLB Trio, the Chameleon Ensemble, A Tear of Rain, and the Moog Project who gave a sublime performance on June 27 this year at the famous Ronnie Scott’s in London … before Thierry lost his mother in July … And it is in a rush of love, creation and emotion that Thierry Maillard started composing and recording this album the following month. He had to find very close musical friends to accompany him through this painful ordeal, and for all of them, it was not the time to let go of a friend to perfect this opus-tribute to a mother. These are 11 titles, 11 memories of shared moments and intense emotions transmitted more or less surreptitiously, with tenderness, delicacy. Thierry is on the piano, Fender Rhodes and synthesizer to interpret his compositions, accompanied by Dominique Di Piazza on bass, Yoann Schmidt on drums and percussion, Olivier Gay on cello on 4 tracks and Philippe Gaillot on guitar on 2 other tracks. A very very beautiful tribute, modest and intense at the same time. An opus that will make you shiver, make you tremble with emotion and make you shed one or more tears as it is beautiful, beautiful, beautiful…
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Thierry Maillard, Dominique Di Piazza, André Ceccarelli – Il canto delle montagne (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:08:36 minutes | 1,33 GB | Genre: Jazz
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Piano trio album, lead the French pianist Thierry Maillard. The other members are bassist Dominique Di Piazza, who’s played with John McLaughlin in the past, and André Ceccarelli, a French drum legend, who’s played a lot of jazz but also with pop artists like Sting or Tina Turner. Therefore, very experienced personnel here, and it shows. They pay a lot of attention to each other, and therefore each of the 16 original tracks, are worth discovering. The album was essentially composed after the Bataclan terrorist attacks in Paris. However, there’s no terror in here, just beauty.
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Thierry Maillard – Alone (Piano Solo) (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 57:41 minutes | 567 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Thierry Maillard is well-placed on his legs, when he talks and is firmly seated when he overhangs the piano keys, to tackle fine, sometimes powerful, groove, surprising arrangements. The fingers fly, the melodies fly away to return better, like so many ritornelas, to get away again. To dare to attack these luminaries of the French song, alone … lonesome on the piano : Brel, Léo Ferré and especially the great Brassens, of which he very early knew to appreciate the finesse of the melodies at the height of the words. The musician with the rugbyman’s shape shows a strong desire to fight and a lot of tenderness.
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Thierry Maillard – Caméléon (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:20 minutes | 1,32 GB | Genre: Jazz
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MUSIC unclassifiable, demanding, inventive, complex, exalted, exploded, indomitable. A great journey for its listeners… as well as for its performers. “A LINE UP that I wanted to be very innovative in the sense that most musicians will meet for the first time around a music and a style as leaders, and each in their group who has no not necessarily used to playing together. That’s what motivates me to carry out such a project!” THIERRY MAILLARD
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Thierry Maillard – Moog Project (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:49 minutes | 1,37 GB | Genre: Contemporary Jazz, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ilona Records
The admiration I had for them led me quite naturally to use synths and especially Moog (like the Minimoog), when I was able to give my first jazz concerts.
The creativity of the bands of the 1970s / 1980s such as Mahavishnu Orchestra, Joe Zawinul, Return to forever, Herbie Hancock, Georges Duke to name but a few, was total, without limit or self censorship.
Today, I want to try the experiment in my turn in order to find this atmosphere on stage where the computer has no place but where the creation of live sounds on these incredible instruments opens wide the doors of imagination and spectacle.
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Thierry Maillard – Paris / New York (1999)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:00:55 minutes | 691 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ghost Note Records
Mostly jazz, with a couple of fusiony numbers. Maillard is a fine French pianist and here he enlists John Patitucci and Dennis Chambers to help him express his music. Solid, but not essential.
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