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Jazz and improvisational pianist with some classic as well as modern inspiration, Bourget “displays impressive technical qualities and shows inexhaustible creative inspiration. An energetic music, extremely dense, as well as uncommon harmonic richness” (Pierre Boulet).

DE L'IMPROVISATION

« Ce qui est trop robuste se ferme à la grâce et à l’enseignement inconnu,
À la surprise, à la décision providentielle, à la merveille imprévue,
À la langue nouvelle,
À tout ce qui est encore illisible, mystérieux, enveloppé,
Aux dards adorables qui blessent et exaucent.»
Jean Renaud

“ What is too robust is closed to the grace and to the unknown teaching,
To the surprise, to the providential decision, to the unexpected wonder,
To the new language,
To all that is still illegible, mysterious, shrouded,
To adorable stings which wound and grant.”
Jean Renaud

« On apprend à préparer, non à inventer; à continuer, non à commencer; à prévoir, non à créer; il n'y a pas plus de règles pour improviser que pour inventer ou pour vouloir, l'apprentissage étant toujours selon l'intervalle, jamais selon le fait de l'instant. Incipere non discitur. »
Vladimir Jankelevitch

«Écrire la musique, aujourd’hui, à cettte heure, vaut-il encore ? Nous sommes allé, en Occident, aussi loin qu’il se puisse faire. Les écritures à venir se répètent déjà en puissance, tout de suite immobiles. Devant le "tout composé", montagne de sel à statue, au surplus avec un univers de machines et d’aides-machines, la mathématique musicale, comme le mauvais goût, sinon le bon et même l’instruction de l’écriture, la vieille honnêteté ou le génie de la composition, hier vainqueurs, sont blessés à mort et à l’âme, vaincus dans leur futur, sève et sang vidés dans les broyeurs logiciels, showbiznesques ou étato-universitaires. Seule l'improvisation, si elle a sa science et son art, sa mémoire et son éthique, sa Synthèse et sa réaction, peut échapper, échappe aux appareils de la surconstruction, du surhumain inutile, à l’Organe du robot chaque jour meilleur mais auquel est inaccessible la parfaite imperfection, c’est-à-dire la vie qui passe, meurt et revient, comme dans un jeu de cachette et d’amour avec le temps, son seul maître.»

Claude Marc Bourget
Poétique de l'improvisation
(à paraître)

1.Soon : Musiques de ballet

MUSIQUE DE BALLET / PIANO
バレエ音楽
Audience
Catalog number : AU004
Recorded in Françoys-Bernier Concert Hall
Domaine Forget, Saint-Irénée, Canada.

2. Second Time, improvisations cycle

“Emotional, uninhibited, and hauntingly beautiful.”
Susan Frances, Jazz Review

Listen Second Time, Improvisations Cycle
DOWNLOAD Plays of Winds (05:08) on All About Jazz (mp3)
DOWNLOAD Secret Ice (04:25) on All About Jazz (mp3)

PRESS

NEW. — ALL ABOUT JAZZ, ITALY

(...) Second Time, realizzato in perfetta solitudine su uno Steinway gran coda (suono magnifico!), si sviluppa infatti come un lungo racconto, come una lunga suite. Preceduta da un cappello introduttivo, la prima parte si muove lungo le coordinate "consuete" del piano solo in chiave jazz. Gli inevitabili echi jarrettiani, dunque. Ma assai più forte, in Bourget, è l'impronta del conterraneo Paul Bley. L'amore per la risoluzione inattesa, per il cambio d'umore che, nello spazio di una nota, ci porta da un gioioso maggiore ad una malinconia più intima.

Con lo scorrere delle tracce si insinuano qua e là, fino a diventare predominanti, gli echi classici. Non solo dal punto di vista compositivo (Brahms e Beethoven, cuore della seconda parte), ma anche da quello esecutivo. La mano sinistra, spesso trascurata dai pianisti jazz, svolge qui un lavoro enorme diventando a tratti la vera protagonista. (All About Jazz Italia) / Read the full review by Paolo Peviani)
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JAZZ TIMES, USA

Bourget creates a balance between the deposits of rage and peacefulness in nature. His compositions channel the moods which guide nature’s course, and draws out its beauty even when confronted with its darker, brooding tirades. Second Time demonstrates Bourget’s agility as a pianist, and skillfulness to convey nature’s messages to audiences. He shows a desire for challenges, and a need to master them. (JazzTimes) / Read the full review by Susan Frances.

JAZZ REVIEW, USA

"The intensity of the music and the quality of the recording pull you into the music, until you feel almost as if you are sitting alone in a concert hall. (...) No matter whether you are solo piano aficionado or not, Bourget’s sound is enthralling.  His technical and creative facilities alone are admirable, but the sheer intensity of his music is enough to draw the most callused listener in.  When so much music follows set forms of conformity and repeating phrases, it’s easy to get lost in the long, full themes that seem to never end.  I am not traditionally a fan of solo piano works, and I probably won’t go out and buy any right away, but this album will definitely have a spot in my listening library." (Jazz Review). / Read the full review by Lorelei Clarke.

JAZZ REVIEW, USA

“ Bourget’s compositions are strictly focused as well as free to soar as high as the creative imagination will allow and sink as low as the heart’s emotional abyss. Through the episodes of deep contemplation and mesmerizing flights, Bourget exhibits impressive maturity that causes people to stop in their tracks and listen to him. (...) His long stretches of wanderings wicked by the piano keys seem mysteriously guided, as even the moments of transgressions manage to stay on course like they are under a trance, which stops them from trailing away from their objective, and every track resounds with an objective in mind. (...) His album Second Time shows his skills as a virtuoso on the piano, but also as a masterful composer and arranger. At 52 years of age, Bourget does not seem to want to turn back time, but to move ahead with it, as Second Time embraces huge challenges and tests Bourget’s reflexes to move spontaneously along the changing tides.” (Jazz Review). / Read the full review by Susan Frances.

JAZZ FRISSON, CANADA

« Bourget est un pianiste exigeant. Introspectif par moment, plus exubérant sur certains morceaux, il nous fait vivre toute une gamme d'émotions. Il faut se laisser envelopper par sa musique, dont l'émotion se dévoile par couches successives comme l'aube naissante révèle les détails qui nous entourent. La musique de Bourget est majestueuse, vecteur de tous les chagrins, joies et espoirs qui y transitent sereinement. » (Jazz Frisson). /Lire le billet complet.

THE LIVE MUSIC REPORT, CANADA

Bourget “explore a mysterious and vast territory. A great gust of wind blowing the melodies against a wall of sound”. (Live Music Report) . / Read the full review byJessica Lombardi.

LISTEN excerpts from SECOND TIME, IMPROVISATIONS CYCLE / 65:14

3. Four new videos



TROIS ÉTATS DE LA MER
Improvisations. / YOUTUBE .HD

Premier état : Pristinus.
Deuxième état :Alterius.
Deuxième état : Postremus

Deux préludes polyphones

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4. Current
Improvisations

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