Pianist Jacky Terrasson is a painter on the keyboard, and this can be heard in the jazz portraits created in his new release Push. Since the early nin...
Chris Parker - 15.09.2010
Pianist Jacky Terrasson describes his move to Concord (after eleven albums with Blue Note) as a chance to 'do things differently ? another...
Glenn Astarita - 10.09.2010
There's no lack of variety on pianist Jacky Terrasson's debut for Concord Records. With his trio and special guests, Terrasson generates a multihued p...
John Fordham - 12.08.2010
Paris-raised pianist Jacky Terrasson has made a few flashy albums since he won the Thelonious Monk Piano Competition in his adopted New York in 1993. ...
Dave Gelly - 18.07.2010
If technique were the only thing that mattered, Jacky Terrasson could demolish most jazz pianists, living or dead. There are quite long passages here ...
Doug Collette - 08.07.2010
There is a warmth in Jacky Terrasson's piano playing on Push not unlike that which pervades his previous work. But in combination with the playful ch...
Phil Johnson - 13.06.2010
You can read the jazz recession into Terrasson's slight slip down the rankings in recent years, and the trying-too-hard-to-please-ness of this partial...
George Kanzler - 11.06.2010
Since winning the Thelonious Monk Piano Competition 17 years ago, Jacky Terrasson has ranged far and wide from his original, striking early trio (with...
Raul d'Gama Rose - 17.05.2010
There are three qualities about pianist Jacky Terrasson's music that make it irresistible and riveting. The first is that it dances interminably. Seco...
Michel Contat - 28.04.2010
Jacky Terrasson, pianiste franco-américain partageant sa vie entre New York et Paris, a eu avec le contrebassiste Ugonno Okegwo et le batteur Leon Par...