Jérémie Ternoy Trio - Survol à basse altitude (2025) [Hi-Res]

Third album by the Jérémie Ternoy Trio, Survol à basse altitude (“Low-Altitude Flight”) extends the story of a group that, for over twenty years, has moved beyond the well-trodden paths. Away from noise, effects, and speed, the trio continues its quest for clarity, balance, and meaning.

Around Jérémie Ternoy (piano, compositions), Nicolas Mahieux (double bass), and Charles Duytschaever (drums), an open space for dialogue takes shape — one where listening drives everything, where each sound finds its place, where improvisation becomes a shared language. Their music does not seek to dominate, but to reveal.
It focuses on what resonates between the notes, on those shared breaths where one senses the presence of others, the fragility of the moment, the trace of life itself.

Here, the flight is low, attentive — at human height, close to the contours of the land. A way of seeing the world differently: never far from the ground, attentive to its details, its folds, its nuances.
Between controlled writing and shared freedom, Survol à basse altitude offers an experience in which every note becomes a gesture, every silence a shared breath — a quiet manifesto for a music that is alive, collective, and lucid.

Since its creation in the early 2000s, the Jérémie Ternoy Trio has established itself as one of the most distinctive and enduring ensembles on the French jazz scene.
Born from friendship and a shared desire to explore, the trio has evolved patiently over the years — through concerts, tours, and encounters.

At its core lies the writing of Jérémie Ternoy — structured yet open — which creates spaces of freedom where the inventive rhythm section of Nicolas Mahieux and Charles Duytschaever unfolds all its sense of movement and nuance.
Together, they have forged a sound unlike any other — clear, dense, alive — where the collective always takes precedence over the individual.

More than twenty years of shared adventure have refined this language, built on trust, risk, and curiosity.
Through three albums and countless parallel projects, the trio has never ceased to question its place, its form, its relationship to the world.
With Survol à basse altitude, it reaches a new stage: that of a serene maturity, without ever relinquishing the freshness of its gesture or the essential drive to keep inventing.

Jérémie Ternoy: piano
Nicolas Mahieux: double-bass
Charles Duytschaever: drums