Paul Lay – Mikado (2013/2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

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Paul Lay – Mikado (2013/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 58:47 minutes | 601 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Laborie Jazz

Acclaimed by the French Jazz Academy in 2016, Paul Lay received the «Django Reinhardt» Prize for the Best French Jazz Musician of the Year. He was also elected Best Young French Jazz Talent of the Year by a poll of critics produced by Jazz magazine. With “Mikado” opus in 2014, the Paul Lay Quartet won the prestigious Charles Cros Academy prize for “the Best International Jazz Album Of The Year”.
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Paul Lay – Deep Rivers (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

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Paul Lay – Deep Rivers (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:06:47 minutes | 1,13 GB | Genre: Jazz, Piano Jazz, Vocal Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Laborie Jazz

Paul Lay, a young French pianist, pays tribute to the music of American soldiers from the First World War: music that introduced jazz to France.

Jazz is the Africans who put the daoua in Western music and who regenerate it while it was in the process of becoming academic, notably by removing from its teaching the art of improvisation. The music which does not like being locked up then crosses the Atlantic and wakes up all jazz undressed by the grace of miserable slaves who were going to invent the greatest lesson of musical freedom.

Paul Lay, the pianist, Isabelle Sörling, the singer, Simon Tailleau the double bassist will give these compositions of the end of the 19th century, these airs of ragtime whistled by young soldiers all their essence, their spirituality, their depth, their lightness – there is all that in this music which connects the sky and the ground, Apollo and Dyonisos, God in the Gospel and the devil in the blues.
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Paul Lay – The Party (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

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Paul Lay – The Party (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 56:23 minutes | 587 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Laborie Jazz

Very greedy Paul Lay who begins the year 2017 with not one but two albums that he publishes simultaneously, Alcazar Memories and The Party that he presents as follows: “I developed this repertoire as a sound illustration of cinematographic scenes that take place at a party. Joy, lightness, the unexpected. The excitement of meeting again. Each piece characterizes a character, a situation, or an exchange of looks, a dance, and many other movements. A party is also an opportunity to observe the game of masks: the ego of each, complex, shimmers differently depending on the situation, in order to obtain the support of the group. These moments of gathering refer us to our own identity, the multiple facets that constitute our personality, our image, our cracks, our repressions, our projections, our fantasies, confronting our reality to that of others. Following the 2014 Mikado album, Paul Lay wanted to deepen his compositional work with Clemens Van Der Feen and Dré Pallemaerts. A natural rhythm and powerful, subtle and delicate, always at the service of emotion and sensation. Hear this trio is pretty jubilant. The proposed complicity, the wealth of improvisations and the great musicality of the themes played, Lay sign here his most impressive record.
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Paul Lay – Full solo (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

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Paul Lay – Full solo (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 59:39 minutes | 541 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Gazebo

“It all started with a proposition by Rene Martin for his Folle Journée de Nantes in 2020. He invited me to interpret some of Beethoven’s works, I was free to do what I wanted, the idea was to select a few of his most beautiful melodies and play them my way, opening them up for improvisation. I accepted the challenge with great joy, and I’m really happy that I could eventually record the project in a studio.”
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Paul Lay – Alcazar Memories / The Party (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Paul Lay - Alcazar Memories / The Party (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz] Download

Paul Lay – Alcazar Memories / The Party (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:51:49 minutes | 1,07 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Laborie Jazz

Very greedy Paul Lay who starts the year 2017 with not one but two albums that he publishes simultaneously: Alcazar Memories and The Party. The first is built around his piano, a voice (that of Isabel Sörling) and a bass (held by Simon Tailleu). “It was the sound I had in mind for this repertoire of songs and poems inspired by nature and its riches, to create many climates and music as dense as air. All these pieces celebrate this Nature, its strength, its multitude, but also describe the Man and his moods, through songs of love. “Paul Lay brings together personal compositions but also signed pieces including Gershwin or Vincent Scotto. Fascinating Swedish singer living between Gothenburg and Paris, Sörling radiates these Alcazar Memories. Paul Lay is not content to accompany him and each theme is truly designed to three. Also three for the second album, The Party. “I developed this repertoire as a sound illustration of film scenes that take place at a party. Joy, lightness, the unexpected. The excitement of meeting again. Each piece characterizes a character, a situation, or an exchange of looks, a dance, and many other movements. A party is also an opportunity to observe the game of masks: the ego of each, complex, shimmers differently depending on the situation, in order to obtain the group’s support. These moments of gathering refer us to our own identity, the multiple facets that constitute our personality, our image, our cracks, our repressions, our projections, our fantasies, confronting our reality to that of others. Following the 2014 Mikado album, Paul Lay wanted to deepen his compositional work with Clemens Van Der Feen and Dré Pallemaerts. A natural rhythm and powerful, subtle and delicate, always at the service of emotion and sensation. Hear this trio is pretty jubilant. The proposed complicity, the wealth of improvisations and the great musicality of the themes played, Lay sign here his most impressive record. On arrival, the union of these two projects is the flagrant proof of the caliber of the pianist, f = great performer and great composer of his generation.
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Paul Lay, Clemens van der Feen, Dré Pallemaerts – Blue in Green (Tribute to Bill Evans) (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Paul Lay, Clemens van der Feen, Dré Pallemaerts – Blue in Green (Tribute to Bill Evans) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:06:02 minutes | 1,26 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Scala Music

Paul Lay and his trio – Dré Pallemaerts and Clemens Van der Feen – revisit some of the most beautiful compositions of the legendary Bill Evans (Blue in Green, The Two Lonely People), as well as great jazz standards of which Bill Evans was the reference interpreter, such as Alice in Wonderland.

Recorded at La Piccola Scala in February 2022, this first jazz album released on the Scala Music label pays tribute to this exceptional composer and melodic improviser who revolutionized the art of the piano-bass-drums trio.

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Eric Le Lann & Paul Lay – Thanks a Million (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Eric Le Lann & Paul Lay – Thanks a Million (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 42:03 minutes | 413 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Gazebo

Eric Le Lann and Paul Lay return to the roots of jazz here. THE root even. With Thanks a Million the trumpeter and pianist embark on a pilgrimage to planet Louis Armstrong. They obviously aren’t the first to celebrate and pay homage to this brilliant music, but their refined approach deserves respect. Besides the wonderful elegance in their interpretations of these pieces, Le Lann and Lay display a fascinating knack for complicity, putting their own original spin on the pieces (which have been heard many times over). With some great piano/trumpet duos this album is a superb Paso Doble that closes with Farewell to Louis, an original composition that’s drenched in melancholy.  – Marc Zisman

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