Amaury Faye

Revelation! award for Amaury Faye Trio in french journal Jazz Magazine/Jazzman

Amaury Faye Trio's first album Clearway (Pias-Jazz Village 2017) has been awarded with a "Revelation!" label by famous french jazz magazine "Jazz Magazine". The journalist Vincent Cotro wrote the following lines:

"A french pianist born and raised in Toulouse, Amaury Faye is currently based in Brussels after coming back from a one-year stay in Boston where he's been awarded with the Berklee Jazz Performance Award in 2015. The following year, he's been able to record his first album thanks to the national competition Rezzo-Focal/Jazz à Vienne. This first album can be showned to everybody who considered that the art of trio has come to an end. The slow and complete assimilation of successive influences, from Garner to Mehldau and a long complicity with…

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Amaury Faye Trio's Canadian Tour kicks off on August 30th

From August 30th to September 5th, the Amaury Faye Trio will head to Canada for a 5 concerts tour including Upstairs Jazzclub in Montreal and the FestiJazz of Rimouski. This Canadian Tour is included in the reward offered by the Jazz à Vienne/Rezzo-Focal National Competition and has been created last year thanks to the new partnership between Jazz à Vienne and the FestiJazz of Rimouski.

Before heading to Canada, the trio is about to start its last part of this summer tour in France, performing in different festivals such as CosmoJazz (Chamonix), Jazz en Ville (Vannes), Tremplin Jazz d'Avignon and Jazz in Marciac.

Right after the Canadian Tour, the trio will end the summer tour in Paris, playing at the Sunside on September 20th.

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AMAURY INTERVIEWED ON RTBF MUSIQ3 ABOUT "CLEARWAY" ALBUM

Tomorrow, Amaury will be interviewed on RTBF Radio Musiq3's jazz line up about his new album Clearway with the Amaury Faye Trio featuring Louis Navarro on bass and Théo Lanau on drums.

The radio broadcast is presented by famous belgian journalist Philippe Baron and occurs every day of the week (except on Saturday and Sunday). This wednesday, Amaury will be interviewed from 6:pm to 7:pm. You can listen to this interview by following this link:

https://www.rtbf.be/

More news are to be anounced next week about Amaury Faye Trio's summer tour.

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Amaury Faye Trio --x-- Endless --x-- Double release party at Le Rex Toulouse

On Thursday, June 1st, the Amaury Faye Trio will share the stage with french duo Endless for an exclusive album release show at le Rex, a famous concert venue in Toulouse.

The two bands will present their new albums, Clearway for Amaury Faye Trio (Pias - Jazzvillage) and Lost Lake for Endless (Neuklang).

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Clearway (Pias-JazzVillage - 2017) is the first album of the Amaury Faye Trio. This album was recorded at the Studio du Flon in Lausanne, Switzerland in November 2016. The official release will be on May 19th, and the concert at Le Rex in Toulouse will be the first release show in France, after a sold out concert in Brussels at the Jazz Station.

The trio recorded…

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Amaury Faye Trio releases its first album "Clearway", due May 19th on Jazz Village (Harmonia Mundi)

The Amaury Faye Trio will release it's first album on May 19th, 2017 on label Jazz Village (Harmonia Mundi). This album is called Clearway, which is the name of the street where Faye used to live while he was studying in Boston.

The album was recorded in Lausanne, Switzerland, in the Studio du Flon, thanks to french national competition Rezzo/Focal-Jazz à Vienne.

Clearway comprises original compositions and interpretation of jazz standards from Cy Coleman and Charlie Parker. Featuring Louis Navarro on bass, Théo Lanau on drums and Greg Dubuis as sound engineer, the trio explores various styles from ballads to be-bop tunes, including pop music. The album will be released in CD and online on digital platforms.

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The Amaury Faye Trio Spring Tour 2017 kicks off today at A Vaulx Jazz Festival

The Amaury Faye Trio spring tour is launched today Tuesday, March 7th. The tour features several concerts in different cities of France and Belgium, including, Lyon, Brussels, Paris and Toulouse. Some of those performances (including A Vaulx Jazz Festival) were made possible thanks to the national competition Rezzo-Focal/Jazz à Vienne won by the trio last summer.

The trio will present songs from the new album Clearway (Jazz Village - 2017), planned to be released next month on Friday, April 7th. The new album will be presented online next week and followed by a press conference in Paris on Tuesday, March 28th at the New Morning jazzclub. Videos and an EPK presenting the project will be released eventually.

The trio will have the pleasure to share the stage on several…

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INITIATIVE H 5 YEARS BIRTHDAY - "TOO YOUNG TO DIE"

This month of January 2017 is going to be pretty special for Initiative H (founded and led by french saxophonist David Haudrechy) which will celebrates its 5 years of existence.

Since its creation in 2012, Initiative H became a major project in contemporary french creation. Its excellence has been aknowledged by the press and the public and the collective still has a lot of things to say. This 5 years anniversary will be celebrated in the city where everything has begun: Toulouse, France.

The first part of the birthday party will take place on Saturday, January 14th at l'Impro (a place well known by the musicians). The bar will present a photo exhibition of french photographer Romain Serrano about…

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INITIATIVE H & Vjing to perform at Theatre des Mazades

Initiative H will be performing after a 3 days residence at Théâtre des Mazades, Toulouse (France) with french artist Romain Quartier. This is the third collaboration between the team and Romain Quartier, who can be now considered as a member of the band.

The performance will reunite the music of last Initiative H's album Darkwave (Neuklang - 2015) and a live video performance (Super8) by Romain.

As the official opening of the venue's cultural season, this concert will be the first and unique 2016 show of Initiative H in Toulouse after a series of concerts in France.

For more information about Romain Quartier and his work, go to Transat Production's official website.

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Amaury Faye as "Best Instrumentalist / Soloist" at European Jazz Contest "Tremplin Jazz d'Avignon" 201

The last competition of 2016 for the Amaury Faye Trio ended up pretty well with another award for Amaury as Best Instrumentalist / Soloist. The Tremplin Jazz d'Avignon is a european competition which take place every summer in Avignon during 2 days. 6 projects were competing this year and the german project Just Another Foundry is the winner of the competition. Here are the 6 different bands that played for 2 nights:

- Garbage Ghost (Belgium)

- Fred Perreard Trio (France)

- Just Another Foundry (Germany)

- Le Jardin (France)

- Morganfreeman (Netherlands)

- Amaury Faye Trio (France).

The jury was presided by famous american bass player Kyle…

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Amaury Faye Trio winner of the Jazz en Ville National Competition 2016

Amaury Faye Trio won the Jazz en Ville National Competition 2016 which took place during the Jazz en Ville Festival in Vannes, France.

This event gave the opportunity to the band to play in first part of french trumpeter Airelle Besson.

Among 12 different projects competing during three days in different categories (only one winner per day), the trio had the opportunity to share the stage with two other outstanding bands aiming for the award:

- David Tixier Trio

- Alex Monfort Trio

Airelle Besson was the president of the jury for the…

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