Artist: Jacky Terrasson
Album: 53
Genre: Jazz
Release Date: 2019
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 96 kHz
Duration: 56:23
Total Tracks: 16
Total Size: 1,17 GB

Tracklist:

1. Jacky Terrasson – The Call (04:03)
2. Jacky Terrasson – Alma (04:20)
3. Jacky Terrasson – Mirror (01:49)
4. Jacky Terrasson – Jump ! (03:02)
5. Jacky Terrasson – Kiss Jannett For Me (07:13)
6. Jacky Terrasson – Palindrome (03:31)
7. Jacky Terrasson – La part des anges (03:36)
8. Jacky Terrasson – Babyplum (03:12)
9. Jacky Terrasson – What Happens au 6ème… (01:45)
10. Jacky Terrasson – My Lys (06:28)
11. Jacky Terrasson – 3. Sequentia: Lacrimosa (01:24)
12. Jacky Terrasson – Nausica (03:38)
13. Jacky Terrasson – This Is Mine (04:45)
14. Jacky Terrasson – La part des anges (Reprise) (02:04)
15. Jacky Terrasson – Blues en femmes majeures (02:06)
16. Jacky Terrasson – Resilience (03:19)

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53 is an album unlike any other in pianist Jacky Terrasson’s prolific career, a magnificent collection of 16 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 the pianist among of the greatest artists in Jazz.Terrasson takes his listeners on a tour of his musical aesthetics: varying moods, styles, rhythms and references which create a kaleidoscopic universe of sounds.His fifteenth album is called 53! “Why 53? Simply because I wrote and recorded this music during my 53 rd year, and on this occasion I wanted to make a record that really reflected me. At the age of 53, a man begins to feel he has reached a form of maturity, he is at his peak, and so can look at life with hindsight 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!” Jacky Terrasson perfectly follows that roadmap on this 15th album as a leader in his 30-year career…

Though this time around, the master of covers (“This way that I have to totally take over a piece by passing it through a formal and stylistic deconstruction process that renews how you see the piece. I have always loved indulging in this kind of transformation, it is like my signature in a way.”) opts for his own compositions. We find sixteen tracks that are deliberately shaped like songs and magnified by dense and precise arrangements. Capable of both pyrotechnic flamboyancy and delicate touches, the brilliant Terrasson fills his album with nods towards his idols. We find influences from Keith Jarrett in the aptly named Kiss Jannett for Me, and Ahmad Jamal on the opening of The Call. He also alternates between groovy sounds on the very pop-like This is Mine (after Charlie Chaplin’s theme Smile) and lyrical touches with the ballad La Part des anges. Jacky Terrasson even quotes Mozart on Lacrimosa with an excerpt from his Requiem. Such eclecticism!

So as to highlight this kaleidoscopic richness even more, he offers up several rhythmic sections: Géraud Portal/Ali Jackson, Sylvain Romano/Gregory Hutchinson and Thomas Bramerie/Lukmil Perez. A diversity that gives concrete form to the different facets of his compositions. This could well be one of Jacky Terrasson’s greatest records… – Clotilde Maréchal