Carte Blanche To Maxime Sanchez

Standards, like a source from which we drink, over and over again. Like every jazz musician, Maxime Sanchez knows the richness of these "great tunes" that must be learned to be breathed in full notes, even in their most intimate silences. The stories they tell, the images they project, and the often magical memories of their interpretation by the most illustrious are the ferment of a language whose shaping is constant. The pianist, who has inscribed his name on the list of Thelonious Monk Competition winners, is aware of the debt he once incurred when he entered the world of music and jazz. He knows that the foundations of his musical construction rest on these loves, often discographic, sometimes cinematographic. It is therefore hardly surprising that this "great repertoire" has nourished him to the point where he felt the need to celebrate it in a trio, beyond the experiences that were his (François Jeanneau, Magic Malik, Toine Thys...) or the formations in which he appears, as a leader or co-leader (Kepler, Flash Pig), a composer committed to the development of a collective and who imposes himself as a leading personality.