You Are the Song

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

Credits

Released May 12, 2023
Label: Justin Time Records

Jean-Michel Pilc – piano
François Moutin – bass
Ari Hoenig – drums

Produced by Jean-Michel Pilc, François Moutin, Ari Hoenig
Recorded by Michael Perez-Cisneros at Big Orange Sheep, Brooklyn, NY June 11, 2022
Mixed and mastered by Michael Perez-Cisneros at Big Orange Sheep, Brooklyn, NY October 2022