Guillaume de Chassy

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Primary Instrument: Piano

February 2007, Paris: Pianist Guillaume de Chassy has just recorded his first solo piano album and he is performing an entirely solo set at the Archipel theater to celebrate its release. If he's nervous, it doesn't show; he jokes easily with the appreciative crowd, leading them through the by-ways of the musical journey that led him to this stage. The easy-going affability is deceptive; when he begins to play, de Chassy is all concentration.

I met with de Chassy a couple of weeks before the Archipel date at his home in a quiet suburb south of Paris. The French pianist and composer, in addition to talking about the new record, waxed eloquently and enthusiastically on subjects ranging from the genius of the composers of the Great American”and the Great French”Songbooks, to the enduring influence of Ravel in jazz, to the struggle between the harmony and dissonance in the arts generally, a kind of dialectical battle Thelonious Monk resolved in his “Ugly Beauty.”

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Last Updated: March 26, 2012

Selected Discography

Guillaume de Chassy, Piano Solo (Bee Jazz, 2007)
Guillaume de Chassy and Daniel Yvinec, Wonderful World (Bee Jazz, 2005)
Guillaume de Chassy and Daniel Yvinec, Chansons sous les bombes (Bee Jazz, 2004)
Guillaume de Chassy, Lunes : Cantate Jazz (Hortus, 2004)
Guillaume de Chassy and Daniel Yvinec, Ghost of a Song (Juste une Trace, 2003)
Guillaume de Chassy, Vue du Phare (Axolotl/Frémeaux&Associés, 2002)
Joël Trolonge Trio, Histoires (Scalen, 2001)
Guillaume de Chassy, Rimes (A Records/Dam, 1999)
Guillaume de Chassy, Mardi 29 (Scalen, 1998)
Guillaume de Chassy, Nouvelles aventures (Quoi de Neuf Docteur/Night & Day, 1996)
Guillaume de Chassy, Pour Monk (Mikeli/Night&Day, 1995)
Ravi Prasad, Ithal (Mikeli/Night&Day, 1994)

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