Jef Giansily - Insight (2025) [Official Digital Download]

ef Giansily is a French pianist and composer, a student of Bernard Maury and a graduate of the Bill Evans Piano Academy. He has been living in Istanbul for twenty years, where he runs a music school. After releasing a first album, Sketches, recorded as a trio in Turkey, and a second, still unreleased opus, Jef Giansily returned temporarily to France to form an explosive quintet and record the impressive Insight at Studio de Meudon.

This is dense, powerful, and lyrical music, driven by an introspective, inner glimpse that suggests a state of alteration—where the power of music transforms our mood and our perception of time. This is moving, contrasting, and expressive music, marked by great sensitivity and a spiritual approach.

The eight tracks of Insight flow together wonderfully, forming a fluid and coherent narrative suite. Influenced by the great jazz ensembles of the 1960s (Miles Davis’ quintet or the Blue Note albums of Herbie Hancock or Wayne Shorter), Jef Giansily’s music remains unique, personal, and modern. It checks all the boxes: it’s both highly enjoyable to listen to and incredibly demanding (with a rhythm section unafraid of metric changes within a single piece).

TRACKLIST

1. Jef Giansily - Alteration
2. Jef Giansily - Timeless Moment
3. Jef Giansily - Mindscape
4. Jef Giansily - Latent Motion
5. Jef Giansily - Heart’s Ways
6. Jef Giansily - Imprint (Sarp Warp)
7. Jef Giansily - Quatre Septembre
8. Jef Giansily - Silver Glints



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