Sébastien Paindestre trio

As leader

Sébastien Paindestre trio: piano, Rhodes, compositions
Jean-Claude Oleksiak: Double bass
Antoine Paganotti: drums

Great success of the 4th album of the formation: “Paris” released in June 2016 on La Fabrica’son label!!!

Download the press review Presse-album-paris

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This trio, after 14 years of existence and numerous concerts on the biggest stages in France and abroad, continues to take the audience on a journey through a constantly renewed and evolving universe without turning its back on the masters of the past.

“Here is a passionate, creative trio that is well worth many recent or past recordings whose merits and supreme qualities are praised.”

culturejazz.net

(…) the two hands of Sébastien Paindestre invent, both in the writing of an original repertoire and in improvisation, an interaction that avoids many clichés and constantly renews itself. From the classic bebop accompaniment led with an authentic sense of space, relaunch, and harmonic lighting, to block chords, he passes through counterpoint and sudden tutti, with a right hand whose lines proceed from rhythmic cuts and melodic angles never banal (…)

Franck Bergerot, jazzmagazine-jazzman

Paindestre continues his exploration of progressive jazz with another exquisite outing on Live @ Duc des Lombards, painting a musical portrait that endures long after it’s over.

All about jazz

Atlantico – En Rouge

As co-leader Dave Schroeder: Soprano saxophone, Alto clarinet, Harmonica, Alto flute, compositions Sébastien Paindestre: Piano (Yamaha C7), compositions Billy Drummond:

Drums (Gretsch) Martin Wind: Double bass

 

“Atlantico” is full of joy and inspiration. From tune to tune, this collective quartet tells some beautiful stories about who they are and where they’ve been. I keep hitting the repeat button. Bravo!!!

Joe Lovano (June 2015)

This new album is the fruit of a beautiful encounter in 2012 between Sébastien Paindestre, a remarkable talent on the French piano scene, and saxophonist and clarinetist Dave Schroeder. The European pianist and jazzman, Sébastien Paindestre, as if in a dream, then recorded his album in New York, in a Manhattan studio with the American quartet Atlantico. The drummer is Billy Drummond and the double bassist is Martin Wind. The album’s repertoire is entirely composed of pieces created by the pianist and Dave Schroeder. In one day, they recorded this album that breathes enthusiasm and the complicity of the musicians. A Sébastien Paindestre at his peak, the Big Apple effect no doubt…

Le prisme magazine (March 2016)

Atlantico, this new Franco-American group sponsored by Joe Lovano, is first and foremost a strong musical friendship and affinity between two musicians, one living in New York: Dave Schroeder, director of NYU Steinhardt, one of the most prestigious jazz schools in Manhattan, member of Combo Nuvo (Lenny Pickett) and the other living in Paris:
Sébastien Paindestre, pianist and composer, equally at ease in jazz groups (Sébastien Paindestre trio, Amnesiac 4tet, BOHP4 quartet) as an accompanist for song artists, as a composer for classical soloists or for cinema.

When Dave Schroeder proposed in 2014 to Sébastien Paindestre to form a group together by inviting him to record in a studio in the heart of Manhattan, the names of Martin Wind (Philip Catherine) and Billy Drummond, disciple of Tony Williams (Sonny Rollins, Andrew Hill, Horace Silver…), both professors at NYU jazz, were an obvious choice…

The music is composed half by Dave and Sébastien with the use of 4 different instruments on the 8 tracks of the album by Dave Schroeder.

In English:

Atlantico is a new band with a famous French jazz pianist and a kind of New York jazz dream team!
Paindestre and Schroeder met in NYU Paris in 2012 during a recording TV show “jazz rendez-vous” where they played together for the first time.
In 2014, Dave Schroeder invited Sébastien Paindestre to come record in New York with a new project as both leaders…
Martin Wind and Billy Drummond, both currently professors at NYU Steinhardt in New York, joined the band.
The band included both composers Sébastien Paindestre and Dave Schroeder.

Amnesiac quartet

As leader Since 2007 and 2 albums released, the Amnesiac 4tet has made an impression, as jazzmagazine writes.

The only jazz group in the world that devotes its repertoire to the music of Radiohead, the success of the “tribute to Radiohead vol.2” allowed the group to open a new bridge between jazz and rock.

Sébastien Paindestre met Thom Yorke in Paris in 2012 during their concert at Paris-Bercy, invited by Radiohead, which was a great recognition for the formation that has given dozens of concerts at jazz festivals and jazz clubs. (Millau jazz festival, Duc des Lombards, Charlie free, Crescent jazz-club, Cabaret Electric, Festival Jazz Pourpre, Le prisme…)

The YouTube video of the cover of “I might be wrong” (68,000 views) was part of a prestigious selection of the best Radiohead covers on the Stereogum.com site in 2012.

A 3rd album is planned for 2017.

 

Broadcast on RFI with 2 live tracks:

The Radiohead.fr website has been a partner of the Amnesiac quartet since 2013.

Jazz album of the week on FIP and favorite of the year!
Disc of the day on TSF jazz
Featured in the “Tendance Jazz” column by Anne Chépeau on France Info on Sunday, December 1, 2013.

Radiohead Solo

This project, initiated by the Jazz’titudes festival, is not a reduction of the Amnesiac 4tet, but a new repertoire around the music of Radiohead.

Sébastien Paindestre, with his experience on the repertoire of the Oxford Englishmen, with a piano, a Rhodes, and unique sounds, transcends in an intimate way one of the most beautiful rock repertoires of the 21st century.