Album A Stovepipe Hat Made From Silk (Atlantico, 2021)
La Fabrica’son label FA06
Dave Schroeder: sopranino saxophone, piccolo, harmonica, bass flute, Mongolian clarinet ever büree Sébastien Paindestre: piano (Yamaha C7), Fender Rhodes Billy Drewes: tenor saxophone Mike Richmond: double bass John Hadfield: drums, percussion
ALBUM NEW EASTER ISLAND (2019)
La Fabrica’son label (FA05)
ALBUM PARIS (2016) La Fabrica’son label
Sébastien Paindestre: piano, compositions
Jean-Claude Oleksiak: double bass
Antoine Paganotti: drums
Recorded at Studio des Egreffins (December 2015)
Label La Fabrica’son (FA 04)
The cover of “Mother Nature’s Son” by the Beatles reflects the heightened melodic sensitivity of Sébastien Paindestre, who delivers a graceful version here (…) a pianist we are truly happy to find in full creative ebullience.
Denis Desassis, ÉLU Citizen jazz, June 2016
With the two faithful companions for 16 years: Antoine Paganotti and Jean-Claude Oleksiak, the leader mixes fluid writing and generous improvisations for the successful electric aesthetic of some pieces on the Rhodes. We remain charmed by the guest on one track (Round Radiohead), classical saxophonist Nicolas Prost.
Bruno Pfeiffer, Libération.fr, June 2016
“The careful and balanced recording of the trio only reinforces my enthusiasm for this coherent album, where generosity is never synonymous with platitude”.
Vincent Cotro, Jazzmagazine, June 2016 (4 stars)
Behind, Jean-Claude Oleksiak is enormous on the double bass. As for Paga’, as always, it’s the assurance of top-class drive. Paindestre takes us on a journey off the beaten path, free from all clichés in a very personal universe. A reverse never univocal but that breathes jazz. At the exact intersection of Radiohead and Brad Mehldau, there is Sébastien Paindestre who demonstrates it brilliantly here.
DNJ, Jean-Marc Gélin, July 2016
“excellent improviser (…) light, solar, funky…”
Jazznew, September 2016
It is with his regular trio that pianist Sébastien Paindestre returns today for a beautiful album titled Paris.
TSF Jazz, disque du jour, June 2016
A very beautiful album that I can only highly recommend, a musical haven in this troubled period although a tribute to painful moments. Jazz tells a story… Let yourself be carried away by this one, tender and strong
Evelyne Merlier, president of Couleurs Jazz, organizer of the Arras Jazz Festival, June 2016.
“Ravelian exposition, pop-rock arrangements, jazz improvisations, and images, always images, more images. A soundtrack for an inner film. There is some Brad Mehldau in this guy, some Ravel too, and probably a touch of Bill Evans. Let’s hope for another 15 years!”
Blog Jazz and Chips
“the suite ‘Gaza-Paris-Jerusalem (For Peace)’, which illuminates an album of overall high quality, as Sébastien Paindestre has accustomed us, in the hope that it will accompany us until our eighties – it won’t be long now”.
DJAM la revue, July 2016
Paris is contemporary jazz that is joyful, poetic, and polished with compositions by Sébastien Paindestre, a cover of the Beatles’ Mother Nature’s Son, and a composition written for classical saxophonist Nicolas Prost inspired by the group Radiohead Round Radiohead. FIP, July 2016
The alternation between acoustic piano and electric Rhodes, from one track to another but also sometimes within the same piece (Scottish Folk Song and Paris-Gaza-Jerusalem), allows for clever contrasts that reveal a rich inner world while bringing to the album a pleasant diversity of tone. Dragonjazz.com
Atlantico – En Rouge (2016), La Fabrica’son label
Co-leader Dave Schroeder: soprano saxophone, alto clarinet, harmonica, alto flute, compositions Sébastien Paindestre: piano (Yamaha C7), compositions Billy Drummond: drums (Gretsch) Martin Wind: double bass
Recorded in New York on February 13, 2015 @ Dolan Studio (Manhattan)
Press review to consult: Presse-Atlantico
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Pierre Tenne, Djam, la revue, September 2015
Jazzmagazine, N°677 October 2015
(…) “Melodic themes, careful writing, interactive improvisations, inspired soloists and solid rhythm, we can’t wait to discover this music on stage…”
Batteur Magazine, N°297 December 2015
“This jazz flows smoothly, calm and alert. Always light and classy. And it’s not for nothing that Joe Lovano signs a few lines on the cover to pay homage to the inspiration of this quartet. A very nice surprise to start the year.”
Jean-Marc Gelin, DNJ, January 2016.
«(…) joyful contemporary jazz from a group with real chemistry. Schroeder’s array of horns help to give the program an interesting shifting sound spectrum, with new colors constantly keeping the group fresh. More, please!»
Allaboutjazz.com, March 2016.
Tribute to Radiohead Vol.2 (2013)
Sébastien Paindestre: keyboards
Joachim Govin: double bass
Fabrice Theuillon: soprano saxophone
Antoine Paganotti: drums
label Musea
Radio broadcasts: FIP (CD of the week), France Info, France Musique, TSF (disque du jour), RFI, Radio Campus Paris, Radio Puriel (Lyon), Aligre FM (Jazzbox), Jazz Radio…
Created by pianist Sébastien Paindestre, the Amnesiac Quartet is undoubtedly the only jazz group entirely dedicated to the repertoire of Radiohead. It thus borrows the suspended bridge between rock and jazz built notably by Brad Mehldau. No dead end on this crossover.
Michel Contat (TT Télérama)
Live @ Duc des Lombards (2010)
Sébastien Paindestre: piano, compositions
Jean-Claude Oleksiak: double bass
Antoine Paganotti: drums
Label ARC (USA), distrib. Musea, Disk Union
Radio broadcasts: FIP, France Musique, TSF, Aligre FM.
This live concert album, co-produced by the trio and the Duc des Lombards, is today the most beautiful opus of the group, or let’s say, the most impressive. One can sense an immense pleasure in playing and, as a listener, one can detect a presence and an intensity that are truly jubilant. Not to be missed!
P. Dulieu, Dragonjazz.com
Everything is in place to make this recording an exceptional moment. In the image of a trio of today, well in its time.
Jean-Michel Proust, artistic director Duc des Lombards
(…) the two hands of Sébastien Paindestre invent, both in the writing of an original repertoire and in improvisation, an interaction that avoids many clichés and constantly renews itself
Franck Bergerot, jazzmagazine-jazzman N° 617, September 2010
It is superb!
Alex Dutilh, France Musique
Paindestre continues his exploration of progressive jazz with another exquisite outing on Live @ Duc des Lombards, painting a musical portrait that endures long after it’s over.
E.B Allaboutjazz.com
The Amnesiac Quartet, it should be remembered, is the only jazz formation in the world that makes Radiohead its sole repertoire. And it is little to say that the result is worth the trip. A substitute drug to be taken at the Duc des Lombards.
Criss-Cross
Tribute to Radiohead (2010)
Sébastien Paindestre: keyboards Joachim Florent: double bass Fabrice Theuillon: soprano saxophone Antoine Paganotti: drums
label Musea, Disk Union
Radio broadcasts: FIP, France Musique, TSF (disque du jour), RFI, Radio Campus Paris, Radio Puriel (Lyon), Aligre FM (Jazzbox), Jazz Radio…
An album that makes you dream
Jazzman-jazzmagazine (January 2010)
Amnesiac Quartet manages to give a completely new reading of Radiohead’s themes
Jazz à FIP of December 29, 2009
Parcours (2008)
Sébastien Paindestre: piano, compositions
Jean-Claude Oleksiak: double bass
Antoine Paganotti: drums
distrib. Musicast, Disk Union
Radio broadcasts: FIP, France Musique, TSF, Aligre FM, France Bleu…
« Parcours », it seems obvious that the journey of the jazz pianist will not stop there. Indeed, listening to his latest opus clearly shows a promising future even if everything is already present today!
music Me.com
One cannot recommend enough to lovers of triangular pianistic jazz to let an ear wander there.
Pierre Dulieu (Dragonjazz.com, May 2008)
Paindestre does not say it only by playing but by delivering very rich compositions, which make room for swing and tell in their own way a beautiful story of jazz piano
Jean-Marc Gelin (jazzman N°146-May 2008)
music Me.com
One cannot recommend enough to lovers of triangular pianistic jazz to let an ear wander there.
Pierre Dulieu (Dragonjazz.com, May 2008)
Paindestre does not say it only by playing but by delivering very rich compositions, which make room for swing and tell in their own way a beautiful story of jazz piano
Jean-Marc Gelin (jazzman N°146-May 2008)
JAZZ BAR (2008) DISK UNION (JAPAN)
After the release of the album Parcours on the Japanese label Disk Union jazz, which includes in its catalog Tony Malaby, Al Foster, Charlie Haden, or Brad Mehldau, a title from the album Parcours (metamorphose) is in the selection of the best records of the year 2008 of the Japanese compilation “jazz bar 2008” (DIW-Disk Union) among 13 international artists (Geri Allen, Eric Harland, Charlie Haden, Paul Motian, Dre Pallemaerts…)
Ecoutez-moi (2005)
Sébastien Paindestre: piano, compositions
Jean-Claude Oleksiak: double bass
Antoine Paganotti: drums
distrib. Musicast, Disk Union
Radio broadcasts: France Musique, TSF, Aligre FM, France Bleu, NYU (USA, New-York)…
A record full of qualities. No doubt, it swings! A lot of freshness and sensitivity…
Jean-Yves Chaperon (RTL)
As a trio, they invent a music of abstract lyricism in all simplicity and sensuality
Franck Médioni (Jazz Magazine, France Musique, Improjazz)
The Sébastien Paindestre Trio exhibits a lightness and youthful spontaneity sadly lacking in many American counterparts. Ecoutez Moi is an enjoyable piano trio record, more stylish than sophisticated. The advanced level of creative interplay between Paindestre, drummer Antoine Paganotti, and bass player Jean-Claude Oleksiak is equal to many historic recordings…
David Seymour (Jazzreview.com, August 2005)