Jazz Articles about Florent Jeunieaux

Serendip Quartet: Queen Of Fire

by Chris May
April 23, 2021

This is the second album from Belgian tenor saxophonist Arnaud Guichard's Serendip Quartet. The first, The Tale (Impeka, 2018), received a deserved four-star review on All About Jazz, and Queen Of Fire is just as good, if not better. The first album's singular intersection of Ben Webster and mild hallucinogenics is still there to be savoured, but this time out the abiding reference point veers towards John Coltrane. The continuity running between the two albums does Guichard ...