> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.rhythmchanges.ca/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Ariane Racicot - Envolée - URL: https://www.rhythmchanges.ca/ariane-racicot-envolee/ - Published: 2022-07-19T13:00:45.000Z - Updated: 2025-12-10T22:24:06.000Z - Description: She just opened for the Lincoln Centre Orchestra in Montreal - Author: Will Chernoff - Tags: Free Weekly ## Get the free weekly email The week's upcoming jazz shows from the gig list + articles like this one. Subscribe Email sent! Check your inbox to complete your signup. You get it on Tuesdays, 6:00 AM Pacific Time. Unsubscribe any time. **Ariane Racicot** is a modern jazz pianist from Montréal who released her first album, *Envolée*, on May 6, 2022 via Multiple Chord Music. --- [![Condition Blue by Cory Weeds graphic](https://storage.ghost.io/c/15/2b/152b7411-0202-45a2-9f09-f39a793683ef/content/images/2022/06/condition-blue-400.jpg)](https://www.twitch.tv/bsidedotradio/?utm%5Fsource=rhythm-changes&utm%5Fmedium=free-weekly-article&utm%5Fcontent=img&utm%5Fcampaign=fwa-2021-07-19) Thank you to **Condition Blue** for sponsoring this free weekly article. Tune into Cory Weeds' online jazz radio show Wednesdays 12pm-2pm PT [**on Twitch**](https://www.twitch.tv/bsidedotradio/?utm%5Fsource=rhythm-changes&utm%5Fmedium=free-weekly-article&utm%5Fcontent=text&utm%5Fcampaign=fwa-2021-07-19) or listen in the browser at [**bsideradio.com**.](https://bside.radio/?utm%5Fsource=rhythm-changes&utm%5Fmedium=free-weekly-article&utm%5Fcontent=text&utm%5Fcampaign=fwa-2021-07-19) --- ## Album review [Envolée, by Ariane Racicot5 track album![](https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2549019651_3.jpg)Ariane RacicotAlexis Chávez![](https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2549019651_5.jpg)](https://arianeracicot.bandcamp.com/album/envol-e?ref=rhythmchanges.ca) It's an odd pairing musically, but Ariane opened for Wynston Marsalis' Lincoln Centre Jazz Orchestra on June 30, 2022 at the Montréal jazz festival. She wrote [on Facebook, originally in French](https://www.facebook.com/arianeracicotartiste/posts/pfbid02imh1F3duGh9pE8DKbpBPgQsKypBK4AJ9H6QzhFNXD22c2Ds54Z5ugSpmF7JJ2HZMl): > "I'm so happy and proud to have played this opening set at the Place des Arts, for my very first time at the Montréal International Jazz Festival! > It lasted only 35 minutes, 4 tunes, but what a feeling of being applauded and having a standing ovation of 3000 people. The energy was just amazing. It just makes me want to keep working hard and dreaming of filling rooms 💪 > I also shook hands with Wynton Marsalis backstage, I was very happy to meet him 😃 > Thank you to those who came to see me, thank you to those who follow and encourage me!" ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/15/2b/152b7411-0202-45a2-9f09-f39a793683ef/content/images/2022/06/ariane-racicot-band.jpg) L-R: Antoine Rochefort on bass, Ariane Racicot on piano, Guillaume Picard on drums *Envolée* is not Wynton music at all: it's prog-rock influenced modern jazz in the lineage of Chick Corea to Hiromi. But it makes sense for a pianist who got views in the olden days of YouTube with a [city piano cover of BoRhap](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7tlkfjPtOY&ref=rhythmchanges.ca). "Bicycle Ride" is the standout track. The grooves are all there with everything from McCoy-style piano power chords and voicings to a proper breakdown, and the trio is lifting off in flight – that's what envolée means. Ariane expertly uses the whole range of the piano to make the band sound huge. The fusion-driven electric bass sounds of **Antoine Rochefort** are key to the album. You hear the extra-low fifth string quite often, which helps get below the piano riffs in the mix. **Guillaume Picard** sounds like he has a big drumset in front of him and knows how to use it. When Ariane's piano goes higher in the final track, "À ciel ouvert", Guillaume goes to the tom-toms – and even double kick drum pedals – to keeps pushing the arrangement forward. Some sections in this track are the hardest-rocking parts of *Envolée*, but the very, very end is the most intimate moment. This isn't one of those progressive music albums that feels long and overextended; it's just 32 minutes long with six tracks. *Envolée* both hits hard and leaves room for imagination – and I'm excited to say I have no idea what Ariane will do next. Once you take off, it feels like you can do anything.