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Jean-Michel Pilc
Jazz

"Renting NYC room Jul-Aug 09/contact me if interest"

NEW YORK, New York
United States

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Last Login:  7/6/2008
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   Jean-Michel Pilc: General Info
Member Since1/21/2007
Band Websitejmpilc.com
InfluencesAngels have no watch.
Source unknown

Music is the universe once again.
Schopenhauer

My music is best understood by children and animals.
Igor Stravinsky

Behind anything that can be experienced there is something that our minds cannot grasp, whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly.
Albert Einstein

To stay sane, you have to categorize the insanity of the world.
Jerry Bruckheimer

Beauty presents a stonewall to the thinking mind.
Peter Schjeldahl

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
Mark Twain

You can't be serious.
John McEnroe

Johnny Mac, don't ever change.
Jack Nicholson

When we love a woman we don’t start measuring her limbs.
Pablo Picasso
(along with many other great Picasso quotes on http://www.artquotes.net/masters/picasso_quotes.htm)
Sounds LikeGo to my albums page
Record LabelDreyfus - www.dreyfusrecords.com
Type of LabelIndie








   Upcoming Shows ( view all )
Jun 30 2008 10:30P
Smalls New York
Jul 7 2008 10:30P
Smalls New York, New York
Jul 14 2008 10:30P
Smalls New York, New York
Jul 16 2008 12:30P
Newport Tower Jersey City, New Jersey
Jul 16 2008 10:00P
55 Bar New York, New York
Aug 15 2008 10:00P
Smalls New York
Aug 16 2008 10:00P
Smalls New York
Aug 19 2008 10:00P
55 Bar New York, New York
Sep 5 2008 10:00P
55 Bar New York, New York
Sep 26 2008 8:00P
Solvang Jazz Festival - Royal Scandinavian Inn Solvang, California
Oct 2 2008 7:30P
EBS TV Show Seoul
Oct 3 2008 8:00P
TBA TBA
Oct 4 2008 8:00P
Jarasum Jazz Festival - Jara Island Jarasum
Oct 5 2008 7:00P
Sara Sara Theater GoYang City
Nov 1 2008 8:00P
November European Tour - In Progress Madrid
Nov 14 2008 9:00P
Sala LatinArte Madrid, Madrid
Nov 17 2008 8:00P
Duc des Lombards Paris, Ile-de-France
Nov 18 2008 8:00P
Duc des Lombards Paris, Ile-de-France
Nov 19 2008 8:00P
Duc des Lombards Paris, Ile-de-France
Jan 25 2009 4:30P
Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society Half Moon Bay
Mar 4 2009 8:00P
Euro Tour TBA (until March 15) Berlin
May 11 2009 8:00P
Euro Tour TBA (until May 31) Paris
May 19 2009 8:00P
Le Quai Angers, Pays de la Loire

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JMPilcNews 06-08: Pilc/Moutin/Hart, DVD screening, CMA grant  (view more)

NYC room for rent this summer  (view more)

JMPilcNews April 07: French Tour Apr 17-25 + 55 Bar Apr 30  (view more)

JMPilcNews March 07: 55 Bar gigs etc.  (view more)

JMPilcNews Feb 07: Smalls, 55, Hoenig Pilc Project  (view more)

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   About Jean-Michel Pilc
*NEW: All Jean-Michel's albums & songs now available on iTunes Store: search for "Jean-Michel Pilc", listen & download

*Chamber Music America Grant
I am very glad to receive from Chamber Music America, for the second time, a New Works: Creation and Presentation Grant.
The first time was a few years ago for the "Trio Sonata" featured in my album "Cardinal Points".
The new project will be the writing and performance of a "Chaplin Suite", a piece reflecting Charles Chaplin's work and inspired by his movies.
For more info on Chamber Music America, please visit: CMA Website

*NEW: Success in MN & ID for Hoenig Pilc Project
Read road report
Check articles & blogs
(scroll down to "Other Articles - 2008")
More about Hoenig Pilc Project
(scroll down to bottom of page)

*Check Jean-Michel's 2008 itinerary including:
-June 08: Florence, Italy - NYU Summer Jazz Intensive
-Sept 08: US West Coast
-Oct 08: Asia
-Oct/Nov 08: US Midwest
-Nov 08: Europe
-Jan 09: US (West Coast etc.)
-May 09: Europe
In progress - Please contact us for bookings

SCROLL DOWN TO WATCH 3 NEW VIDEOS
Widmung clip + 2 excerpts of a new film about Jean-Michel.


Born in Paris in 1960, self-taught, Pilc was a jazz devotee by age 8 which is when he first heard Bix Beiderbecke.

After building a respectable musical career in Europe, Pilc arrived in the U. S. in 1995 and soon signed on as musical director for Harry Belafonte (who wrote the liner notes for Pilc's 2002 Dreyfus debut, Welcome Home). To date, Pilc has played with such greats as Roy Haynes, Michael Brecker, Dave Liebman, John Abercrombie, Jean Toussaint, Martial Solal, Michel Portal, Marcus Miller and Lenny White and made recent sideman appearances with his esteemed peers Ari Hoenig, Sam Newsome, Rosario Giuliani, Elisabeth Kontomanou, Richard Bona and more.

But Pilc's accomplishments as a leader have garnered the widest praise. The legendary critic Dan Morgenstern chose Pilc's masterful Cardinal Points as a top-ten album of 2003. JazzTimes enthused that it 'should be studied in every music school in the galaxy...' Pilc's follow-up, the solo piano Follow Me, was one of Howard Reich's top 2004 picks in the Chicago Tribune. Andrew Durkin of All About Jazz wrote: 'Pilc leans toward a comprehensive pianism, ably expressing-on a single instrument, no less-so much of what has made jazz fascinating, problematic, or inspiring over the last hundred years.'

'No jazz pianist today offers anything like his melange of monster chops, wildly impulsive imagination..."
-Thomas Conrad, JazzTimes


'Mr. Pilc seems to have dropped from the sky fully formed with technique and his ideas in place. He is a physical and densely harmonic player, a splashy stunner...'
-Ben Ratliff, The New York Times


'...visual art references come to mind: Cubist renderings of melody in which the original is reshaped into a completely different visual perspective... Pilc is a player with a future, one whose impressive work deserves far wider exposure.'
-Don Heckman, The Los Angeles Times


'The right hand runs of jazz pianist Jean-Michel Pilc are enough to send shivers up your spine, but he is about more than chops. His densely harmonic reinventions of standards you thought you knew clearly shows a musical genius at work.'
-Eric Brace, Washington Post


'Beyond all that can be said about his masterful technique and his beauty of touch, it is the unpredictability that is central to his remarkable talent. As one listens to each selection, be they vintage or newborn, one is taken into his world of improvisation where the unexpected is constant.'
-Harry Belafonte


VIDEOS

Widmung
Jean-Michel, Thomas Bramerie (b) and Mark Mondesir (d) play "Widmung", a Schumann melody arranged by Jean-Michel, from his upcoming CD "New Dreams" (Dreyfus, release 2007). A clip by Gildas Boclé.



Jean-Michel Pilc: A Portrait (2 excerpts)
An upcoming film about Jean-Michel by John McCormick (release 2008 - DVD & iTunes). Featuring Ari Hoenig, François Moutin, etc.




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Jean-Michel Pilc's Friends Comments
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Jul 6 2008 8:36 AM

Thanks for the friendship,
hope you enjoy our music.
Peace
pianobleu.com





Jun 30 2008 6:30 AM

Merci pour ces splendides "New dreams" !
Jacqueline Minns





Jun 23 2008 10:39 AM

piano art
Myspace Glitter Graphics

Michel Héroux





Jun 20 2008 5:19 PM

Merci pour l'ajout ,
et la très belle musique !
Jazz Inside Trio





Jun 18 2008 10:48 AM

Merci pour le fabuleux duo du 14 juin au Duc des lombards, un grand moment de musique.
Rosa
Brian Michael





Jun 11 2008 9:35 PM

Dear Jean-Michel, please come back to Los Angeles soon. You should also play Portland, Oregon, that's a great jazz town.
STEPH BELMONDO "drums page"





Jun 11 2008 4:23 AM

j-3
STEPH BELMONDO "drums page"





Jun 8 2008 4:05 PM

j-5
Denny Zeitlin





Jun 5 2008 3:30 PM

Thank You for Add, Jean-Michel!
STEPH BELMONDO "drums page"





Jun 6 2008 3:27 AM

héllo frangin bon cool on va leur
foutre l'enfer au duc samedi prochain
j'espere que tout va pour toi....
BIG KISS peace sb
Duo Kruglov / Nadzharov





Jun 2 2008 12:39 PM

thanks for the add!
loving your music much
hendrik





May 29 2008 2:05 PM

Awesome music.
All the best to you and lots of love from Cologne
Hendrik
Antonio Gaudino





May 25 2008 12:29 AM

Hello Jean,

do you remember me? They are the journalist, the musical critic to which you have granted an interview in autumn for the magazine Files Luxury. Thanks still!

Best
A.
(Beat magazine Italy)
julien LYLA trio





May 19 2008 11:14 PM

bonjour,
merci pour l'ajout dans l'espoir de vous voir un jour en concert
julien
Renaissance Dell'Arte





May 15 2008 12:31 PM

Thanks for connection.
Keep up the great music.
Kiss,
Renaissance Dell'Arte
Mauro Bottini





May 15 2008 12:22 PM

Hi JEAN-MICHEL, thank's for add., thank's for friendship, my best compliment's for your music. Great music. Great PIANIST!!!Bye, MAURO BOTTINI.
Nancy Goudinaki





May 8 2008 10:45 PM

Thank you very much Mr Jean -Michel for the add!I like very much your sound!I believe that you are an excellent musician & i hope that i will enjoy one day one of your gig in NYC.

Peace
Nancy w:)
Elie Maalouf





Apr 28 2008 7:49 AM

Merci pour l'amitié pianisticomyspacienne!
Et pour tout ce flux musical...
JAZZBOX





Apr 22 2008 4:27 AM

Bonjour à toutes et tous!!!
Ne manquez-pas notre rendez-vous
avec Jean-Michel PILC samedi 26 avril
à 17h00 sur ALIGRE FM 93.1 Paris/IdF...
(CARTE BLANCHE dans quelques semaines)
JAZZBOX-PROGRAM/ONLINE :
http://www. aligrefm. org
silvio angiolucci





Apr 16 2008 1:03 PM

Hi Jean-Michel
thanks for your friendship
i like so much your way,
so i hope to listen and know you soon in Florence-Firenze..
All the best
Slv
Annalee





Apr 4 2008 10:27 AM

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Aristotle

It's Friday :) Have a good one!
Annalee
Assilem





Mar 24 2008 8:12 AM

merci pour l'ajout!!!! très bonne musique!!
Jimmy BRAUN





Mar 23 2008 12:05 PM

Merci d'avoir accepté l'invitation et bravo pour ta musique et surtout la profondeur avec laquelle tu oses être à son service.

Bon groove !

Jimmy
Sheela





Mar 23 2008 3:03 AM

Great!
Happy Holidays!
Karl Degenhardt





Mar 10 2008 3:56 PM

Thanks so much for the add! Jean, I always loved your sound and passion for the music. Simply great!!

best wishes,
Karl
Giovanni Marchesiello





Mar 8 2008 8:09 AM

Ciao Jean-Michel,
grazie tantissimo per la amicizia, sopratutto per il tuo lavoro!!!
regards Giovanni
ToroGhiro





Feb 24 2008 6:10 AM


Grazie Maestro!
Elliot Galvin





Feb 23 2008 3:09 PM

Thanks for accepting my add. I am a big fan of your music.

Elliot
taihei asakawa   浅川太平





Feb 15 2008 11:44 AM

thanks for the add!
Your music stimulates me most.

respect

ta
Jérémie Buirette





Feb 8 2008 4:25 AM

Bonjour,
J'ai decouvert votre musique par un ami contrebassiste avec qui il m'arrive de jouer : Jacques Bernard (Nîmes- Gard).
Je dois avouer que je suis devenu complètement fan...
J'espère vraiment vous rencontrer lors d'un concert.
Trés respectueusement.
Jérémie