A Review of ‘Darling’ - A Jazz Production of Raw Emotion by Grégory Privat
A lone piano note hangs in the air before the rest of the arrangement arrives, and it belongs entirely to Grégory Privat.
Every layer beneath it, every texture around it, is his too. 'Darling', the title track from the Martinique-born pianist's third solo album, is a record built by one pair of hands, and this premiere marks its wider introduction to listeners beyond his native jazz circles.
"I'm playing this piece alone, but I wanted it to sound as if there were many musicians," he says. "A very fast tune created to bring excitement and happiness."
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Grégory Privat has spent over fifteen years shaping a musical language where jazz meets the Creole traditions of his island, earning acclaim from Jazz Magazine, DownBeat and Télérama along the way, plus the Académie du Jazz's Prix Django Reinhardt and Adami's "Artist to Watch" award. With Darling, he goes further than ever before, playing every instrument on the album himself. 'Darling' is the point of entry into that world, and it's a fitting one: intimate, self-contained, and entirely his own.
Alongside the album, Privat has also shared a live session of 'Dwèt Crazy', another Darling track, out 2nd October via Believe Music. Built solo at a loop station from piano, synths, vocals and percussion, it's a document of the same solitary craft that defines the record, performed live and stripped of studio safety nets.
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