En Trois Couleurs En Trois Couleurs Marie-Josée Simard, percussion - François Bourassa & Yves Léveillé, pianos ACD2 2709 • Percussionist Marie-Josée Simard recently made her mark on the jazz world, joining the great jazz pianists and composers François Bourassa and Yves Léveillé to form the trio En Trois Couleurs.   ATMA Classique presents the trio's first album En trois couleurs, which sees these exceptional musicians journey through an everchanging landscape of jazz, improvisation, and world music. • Most of the works performed on this recording are originals, written by members of the trio.   From Yves Léveillé's Zone indigene to the collective compositions Keiko, Diapasons, and En trios couleurs, their crafty combination of textures, innovative harmonies, and a vast palette of unusual sonorities is guaranteed to surprise and seduce attentive and curious music lovers. • About Simard's performance in the opening show of the 2014 Jazz en Rafale festival, jazz critic Marie-Eve Boulanger wrote: “The result on stage really floored me.   Marie-Josée Simard, a classical soloist who is little known in the Montreal jazz scene, excels in improvising.   Whether playing tubular bells, different types of vibraphone, marimba, or sundry other instruments, she astonished listeners that evening.   Simard slips like a cat between her instruments and the two great pianists who accompany her, presenting her own compositions and transforming theirs.” (March 22, 2014, Camuz.   Le calendrier musical de Montréal) • The new trio won the 2013 Opus Prize for the year's best jazz concert. Yves Léveillé (b. 1957) 1. Pantomime     [ 8:23 ] Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983) 2. In the First Pentatonic Major Mode     [ 3:26 ] François Bourassa (b. 1959) 3. Jeu | Réflexive     [ 10.00 ]     ( 2e mouv. | Second Movement: Trois jazettes concertantes) Marie Josée Simard (b. 1956) - François Bourassa - Yves Léveillé 4. Keiko *     [ 2:45 ] Yves Léveillé 5. Zone indigène     [ 9:35 ] Marie-Josée Simard - François Bourassa - Yves Léveillé 6. Diapasons *     [ 5:15 ] Mike Mainieri (b. 1938) 7. Self Portrait     [ 4:39 ] Marie-Josée Simard - Yves Léveillé - François Bourassa 8. En trois couleurs *     [ 5:56 ] * Creation | Premier ATMA Classique is distributed in Australia by Rockian Trading PO Box 44, Briar Hill, Vic, 3088, Australia Telephone +61 (0)3 9432 4149 ~ Facsimile +61 (0)3 9444 6879