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Release Date: 03 April 2026
Label: La Buissonne
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 3770010548607
Genres: Jazz Contemporary
Description
To the wider public, Andy Emler is best known as the architect behind MegaOctet, a large ensemble that long ago outgrew the notion of a band to become something closer to a permanent musical laboratory. For decades, MegaOctet has embodied Emler's core philosophy: music without fences, styles treated not as territories to defend but as materials to reshape.
Yet to define Andy Emler solely through this flagship project would miss the broader picture. He is equally a meticulous composer, a singular pianist, and a relentless improviser, moving fluidly between large-scale works and more intimate formats, trios, duos, and long-standing collaborations, notably with bassist Claude Tchamitchian and drummer Eric Echampard, as demonstrated here with the trio's new album, There Is Another Way.
Together, Emler, Tchamitchian and Echampard share not only a musical language but a deeper conception of music as a collective, living process. Most of the compositions on There Is Another Way are self-contained instrumental movements of varying character, and although composed by Emler, it is the trio that plays and develops this music.
Andy Emler: piano
Claude Tchamitchian: double bass
Eric Echampard: drums
Recorded and mixed by Gerard de Haro at Studio La Buissonne.
Tracklisting
The Magic Lantern
Andy Emler
Jean-Marie Machado
Vincent Courtois Trio
Jean-Marie Machado & Danzas Orchestra
Flo and The Murmurs
Vincent Courtois
Jean-Debastien Simonoviez
Andy Emler, Claude Tchamitchian & Eric Echampard
Andy Emler
Andy Emler
Andy Emler
