# CD review: Thierry Eliez – Improse Extended 2019: Video, CD cover

- Link: https://jazzblues.eu/2019/04/04/cd-review-thierry-eliez-improse-extended-2019-video-cd-cover/
- Published: 2019-04-04T20:36:38+01:00
- Author: https://JazzBlues.EU

**You do not know who is Thierry ELIEZ …? Imagine a “talented little genius” who
has played with the greatest: Horace Silver, Jaco Pastorius, Jimmy Smith, Aretha
Franklin and so on, who has multiplied the participations and has intervened on 
many music films. **

But that’s not all … because when you are an artist who plays at the level of the
stars, you are asked and we have the pleasure of accompanying great French performers
such Nougaro, Aznavour, Salvador and Catherine Lara, among others … And in addition
to this resume to piss off a lot of French musicians (and not only those of the 
hexagon), we find ourselves faced with a personality almost shifted so it surprises,
surprises, charm, seduced, because Thierry ELIEZ owns an extraordinary auditory 
memory and what is called “the absolute ear”.

Take a look at all these lines and you will have trouble understanding why you do
not know Thierry ELIEZ yet. But the guy is such a discretion that you will be excused
immediately, because Thierry is rather like to appreciate the shade of the stars
he accompanies. But the talent of the character is such that one day it was his 
duty to show himself in full light. And so, after 35 years of career as sideman 
and more than 50 musical interventions with other musicians on their respective 
albums, Thierry ELIEZ (remember that name …!) Finally decides to publish his own.
We are then in 2017 and he released his solo album “Improse”, but the creative genius
constantly itching, he then decides very quickly to embark on new extensions of 
this first opus, and here he calls for two other musicians. He switches from one-
to-one dialogue with the instrument to a three-way dialogue with two other musicians.
On this new album Thierry ELIEZ is at the piano, Ivan Gélugne on bass and André 
Ceccarelli on drums. Thierry has composed 7 tracks and he takes “Circum” from Cellin
Poggi and “Reverie” by Claude Debussy. Loving the work well done and shaped like
a jewel, it is also he who arranged the whole. Another masterful success of this
album, it allows the meeting of three musicians of three different generations who
find themselves and flourish as well in abstraction as in figurative poetry. Magical,
majestic and divine at the same time. An album that ranks among the essential of
this early 2019!

**Tracklist:**

 1.  Circum
 2.  Satie
 3.  Absinthe
 4.  Forango
 5.  Rêverie
 6.  Intérieur Nuit
 7.  Frida
 8.  Triptyque
 9.  Incognition

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