''Push'' is a studio album by German jazz pianist and composer

Jacky Terrasson Jacky Terrasson (born November 27, 1965) is a French jazz pianist and composer. Background Terrasson's mother is African-American from Georgia, and his father is French. From his parents he heard classical music as a child. He began piano lesson ...

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released the album on April 27, 2010. This is his debut release for Concord and eleventh overall. ''Push'' also marks his vocal debut.

Reception

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'' wrote, "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 recovery with an augmented trio... There's no doubting his talent, but you can't please everyone, especially in jazz."

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'' stated, "this set feels warmer, more musical and more mindful of its materials than previous outings, as well as emitting bursts of headlong energy that make you whoop." Raul D'Gama Rose of ''

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'' mentioned, "''Push'', then, is absolutely classic Terrasson. It is full of double entendre, unbridled ideation and luminosity. Like Monk, his muse, Terrasson's solos are abstruse. This is because his purported approach is never linear, but is instead curved—and if he can get away with it, inside out. He attacks melodies askance, sometimes taking cues for his solo excursions from the third or fourth line in a verse." Added Nate Chinen of ''

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'', "His brightly energetic, pristinely articulated pianism is the album’s crux."

Track listing

Personnel

– piano, keyboards, vocals (tracks: 8 11) * Ben Williams – acoustic bass, electric bass *Jamire Williams – drums *

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– guitar (tracks: 8) * Gregoire Maret – harmonica (tracks: 3 8) *

Cyro Baptista Cyro Baptista (born December 23, 1950) is a Brazilian percussionist in jazz and world music. He creates many of the percussion instruments he plays. Career Born in São Paulo, Brazil, Baptista arrived in the U.S. in 1980 with a scholarship to C ...

– percussion (tracks: 8 10 11) *

Jacques Schwarz-Bart Jacques Schwarz-Bart (born 22 December 1962 in Les Abymes) is a French jazz saxophonist. Biography His mother is the Guadeloupean novelist Simone Schwarz-Bart, author of ''The Bridge of Beyond''. His father was French-Jewish author André Schwar ...

– tenor saxophone (tracks: 6)

Charts

References

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