JackieTerrasson: Carte Blanche

In order to view exclusive films with NO ADVERTS and HELP Altea Media restore in UHD resolution new productions, please join and subscribe :    / @alteamedia   View our subscription program introduction film:    • Altea Media subscription  introduction   Jacky Terrasson succeeded as never before in a great jam session which could remind old-timers of Norman Granz's Jazz at the Philharmonic in the 1950s: stars succeeding one another then mingling (jam = jam) with flawless rhythm as support (c was, then, often that of Oscar Peterson's trio). Except that in Saint-Emilion, no symphony hall: stands, and yet a very good sound system, and the star was the pianist and his quartet, with Burniss Travis on double bass, Justin Faulkner on drums, Minino Garay on percussion . Plus a few others, not very well known: like Michel Portal, just a national treasure, Grégoire Maret, conquering the planet on the harmonica, Glenn Ferris, “the best trombonist in the world” (the columnist quotes himself), the singers Malia, Kelly Jones and Cécile McLorin Salvant. Improvisation in the choice of pieces that the pianist begins by installing a churchy groove allowing the rhythms to find their balanced base and the listeners to let these rhythms gain their feet. It won't stop, at different tempos, during the two hours of this concert where the themes follow one another at the discretion of the leader: Body and Soul, Oh my love (by John Lennon, sung with touching tenderness by Cécile McLorin ), a medley where Smoke gets in your eyes, Ruby my dear (by Thelonious Monk), strangely frayed by Jacky and Grégoire Maret, My baby don't care for me (by Nina Simone), where Malia and Glenn Ferris compete of swaying feeling, the bravura piece Caravan, where Michel Portal, my word, swings, Glenn Ferris dukes-Ellingtonizes as if he were playing all the solos at once, Grégoire Maret explodes the chords and Justin Faulkner unleashes his 19 years. Then Jane Kelly sings Time after Time better than Cindy Lauper who created the song, and the three singers sing Rehab in tribute to Amy Winehouse, who died exactly a year ago. Michel Portal returns to muffle his bass clarinet on La Javanaise as Ben Webster would have played it on tenor (we can't believe it), Cécile follows up with the spicy Je te toi by Eric Satie. Jacky's favorite piece, Smile (by Charlie Chaplin), with its own arrangement, is a crowd pleaser that the entire corporation of trio pianists can envy. Everyone gathered for an “encore” called by the spectators who were also preparing to defrost their legs (while on stage the temperature was rising, it was dropping to 15° in the aisles, which makes us fear for the 2012 vintage, if summer continues to hibernate). The singers sing Say Yes to the audience who thank them by finally clapping the offbeat in their hands.