Thierry Maillard - Paris New YorkThe brilliant and consistently inventive composer and pianist Thierry Maillard has had a very productive career, leading at least 21 albums so far. But until now, his 1998 debut, Paris New York, has only been available in Europe. Now finally, 24 years later, the Ghost Note label is making it easy for American listeners to appreciate how talented Maillard was at the beginning of his brilliant solo career. Thierry Maillard : PianoJohn Patitucci :

thoroughly contemporary context

Mike faces the fact that other men will enter the family

Almost every country and corporation in the world seized upon the opportunity

"I just wanted to make something that sounded great

Presented here is a rare mid-70's release featuring Bill Farrell (vocals)

"Love Is The Thing

Together with Wolfgang Brunner on the fortepiano

"Entertainment" is a straightforward song about the cat and mouse game of lust that uses an irresistibly '80s-tinged mix of synth arpeggios and smooth saxophone runs to emphasize the song's inherent sense of friskiness

which sets to music the Psalms of the Vespers liturgy for all obligatory feast days

For me this is the most honest form of music"

But had he really turned his back on film music he was used to composing in America

" Woodring says