Open Roads (Digifile)
  • Romain Pilon
    Romain Pilon
  • Orlando Le Fleming
    Orlando Le Fleming
  • Mark Whitfield, Jr.
    Mark Whitfield, Jr.
  • Jean-Paul Estiévenart
    Jean-Paul Estiévenart
  • Alexis Valet
    Alexis Valet

Romain Pilon

Open Roads (Digifile)

Jazz & People

Personnel:
Romain Pilon (g), Orlando Le Fleming (b), Mark Whitfield, Jr. (d), Jean-Paul Estiévenart (tp), Alexis Valet (vib)

Reference: JPCD 825002

Bar code: 5051083215589

Following Falling Gracen, in which he explored standards in trio with drummer Jeff Ballard that racked up over 4 million streams, guitarist Romain Pilon opens up new musical horizons with Open Roads, an album that showcases his talents as a composer. Combining voices and textures with a subtle imagination, featuring one of those stellar line-ups that Romain Pilon has a secret for, this album combines an ironclad trio formed with bassist Orlando le Fleming (Ari Hoenig, OWL Trio) and drummer Mark Whitfield, Jr. (Kenny Garrett, Black Art Jazz Collective) and a quintet with an unprecedented combination of sounds, combining the trumpet of Belgian star Jean-Paul Estiévenart with Alexis Valet, France’s new kid of vibes. Evolving between the adventurous spirit of the Blue Note albums of the grande époque and a more contemporary ECM-type sound, showing the influence of Pat Metheny and Kenny Wheeler alike, Open Roads unveils a series of sensitive, poetic, lyrical and groovy tracks, unfolding a wide palette of emotions and colors, under the fingers of a guitarist whose reputation is well established. Why not join him on the roads?

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Tracklist

01. Open Roads (Romain Pilon) 7:28
02. Long Story Short (Romain Pilon) 6:30
03. Thirty Years After (Romain Pilon) 5:34
04. Ready For Cooky (Romain Pilon) 5:12
05. Good People (Romain Pilon) 5:01
06. Tulsa (Romain Pilon) 6:05
07. What’s in the Way Is the Way (Romain Pilon) 6:26
08. Now It Begins (Romain Pilon) 4:50

Album details

All compositions by Romain Pilon

Personnel:
Romain Pilon (guitar), Orlando Le Fleming (bass), Mark Whitfield, Jr. (drums). Guests on #1, 2, 4 & 7: Jean-Paul Estiévenart (trumpet), Alexis Valet (Vibes).
Recorded at Studio de Meudon, France, May 29 & 30, 2024

Engineered by Julien Bassères
Edited by Jonathan Marcoz (Pure Capture)
Mixed by Alon Benjamini
Mastered by Dave Darlington

Photography and video by Maxime de Bollivier
Graphic design: Olivier Linden
Liner notes written by Vincent Bessières

Produced by Romain Pilon
Executive producer: Vincent Bessières

Press reviews



"Pilon glides through the music with a superb sense of confidence... Never loud, never distorted, never raging, but always unpredictable."
—Jazz Times

"... With a rare sense of space, Romain Pilon is a guitarist whose flow of imagination sets high standards, and whose guitar tone is one of the most elegant around..."
—Jazz News

"... Pilon is world class"
—Financial Times

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14,95 €  (tax incl.)

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