{"product_id":"sglsa15402-stillpoint","title":"Stillpoint","description":"\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThe creative imagination of pianist Chris Gestrin animates this set of contemporary jazz compositions. Trumpetist Brad Turner and reeds player Jon Bentley draw sound paintings on the acoustic-electric canvas of Gestrin, bassist André Lachance and percussionist Dylan van der Schyff. Audiophile Audition described the sonics as “super-clean, detailed and spatially located with great precision…’ear-stretching’.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\r\n\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e- Mark Werlin, NativeDSD Music \u0026amp; AllAboutJazz\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003chr\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cspan data-sheets-root=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChris Gestrin\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Vancouver-based pianist, keyboardist and composer who might occasionally put you in mind of Bill Evans or Keith Jarrett, if either of those masters were young today and equally at home with the acoustic and the electronic, jazz and ambient. \u003c\/span\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cspan data-sheets-root=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStillpoint\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e was his first release on Songlines Recordings, and it stands as perhaps his most personal statement as a jazz-and-beyond composer-performer. His handpicked, versatile quintet, featuring trumpeter \u003cstrong\u003eBrad Turner\u003c\/strong\u003e and drummer \u003cstrong\u003eDylan van der Schyff\u003c\/strong\u003e, creates rich images in sound. From a tender solo piano improvisation to swirling group inventions, a musical narrative of almost cinematic sweep unfolds. Gestrin’s compositions range across jazz, experimental music, new age and world music for their ideas, but this is not “fusion” in any ordinary sense, there is too much originality and panache for that. The multi-channel remix opens on an imaginary environment that connoisseurs of surround sound, whether jazz fans or not, will surely appreciate.\u003c\/span\u003e\r\n\r\nBorn just outside Vancouver in 1972, Gestrin graduated from the Berklee College of Music in 1995 with a degree in film composition. He quickly became one of Vancouver’s busiest pianists, keyboardists, effects artists, and soundtrack composers, co-leading or performing in many bands of various kinds, from funk and soul jazz to less categorical combinations of jazz, fusion, ambient, and improv. 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