Jean-Michel Pilc - YOU are the Song (2023)

Pianist Jean-Michel Pilc, Bassist François Moutin
and Drummer Ari Hoenig Team Up Again on
YOU Are The Song, the Trio's First Album in Twelve Years

The collective trio embarks on its dynamic and exhilarating mash up of on-the-spot originals and reharmonized, shifting tempo takes on such cherished standards as John Coltrane’s “Impressions” and Thelonious Monk’s “Straight No Chaser.” It’s not free jazz as some listeners from its three-decade career assume, but at its emotive heart, the trio’s album with all three artists serving as leaders follows melodic forms, fuels with a unique rhythmic vitality, powers into playground antics and ventures into uncharted sonic territory. The album was recorded without any preparation and includes only first takes.

“This remarkably intuitive trio has the ability to collectively bend the harmonic and rhythmic content of familiar jazz standards like taffy…...it’s like watching the Flying Karamazov Brothers tossing bowling pins back and forth from across the stage.” - JazzTimes