Manuel Rocheman
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"Manuel Rocheman's voicings and touch are delicate, original, disciplined and swinging. One of the top French pianists on the planet"
Mike Zwerin - International Herald Tribune
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"Rocheman, an impassioned pianist, interprets standards like "On Green Dolphin Street" or "Besame Mucho" with an attractive blend of the familiar and the original"
Marcela Breton - Jazztimes America
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Apart from his quite outstanding technical qualities (ideal articulation, a deep mellow tone owing nothing to the use of pedals) nothing in Rocheman's playing is reminiscent of Solal. Beginning from a perfect synthesis between the lyricism of Bill Evans and Keith Jarrett, the graceful touch of a Chick Corea and the harmonious swing of Herbie Hancock, this pianist who is as unassuming in his human relations as he is flamboyant at the keyboard has imposed his own style of a rare "vocal" quality. There is no doubt Manuel Rocheman could have been a great singer, and few pianists of his generation deserve this supreme compliment.
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The secret of this art, which is all about balance and restraint, is the privilege of the humble, of those rare hard-line fanatics for whom jazz remains a culture and a calling, not a career path.
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Sense of harmony is not innate but must be learned in music as in life.
Gérald Arnaud - Epok
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The one pianist Jazz can count on for life.
To remember there is a wizard of the piano after Martial Solal. His
name is Manuel Rocheman, he plays in a threesome and it's terrific.
Michel Contat - Télérama
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Rocheman is a musician through-and-through. He has what it takes, proves it unostentatiously, and never cheats.
Francis Marmande - Le Monde
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With this musician we are dealing for real with a creator : there are
not that many of them in the small world of Jazz.
Alain Gerber -Diapason