Jazz to jazz, New York to France, a piano trio of cutting-edge French jazzmen and a NY-based Japanese jazz pianist. Superbly different! Internationally acclaimed jazz pianist & composer Takeshi Asai (de trois cités records), joins great French musicians, bassist Pascal Combeau and drummer Maxime Legrand to form a new piano trio in France. The music of Takeshi Asai is exquisitely aesthetic, traditional yet very modern, lyrical and eclectic. It's deep, but it never looses the charm and the catchiness as if it were a popular music. -