Jazz Articles about Remi Bolduc

Remi Bolduc: 4 + 1 with Jerry Bergonzi

by Ken Dryden
June 10, 2008

Alto saxophonist Remi Bolduc, a professional musician since the age of fifteen, is rather well known in his native Canada, where he has worked with bandleader Vic Vogel, pianists Oliver Jones and Lorraine Desmarais, the late drummer Bernard Primeau and guitarist René Lussier. He has also played gigs with Americans such as bassist Marc Johnson, guitarist Ben Monder and pianist Andy Milne. Bolduc spent time in America studying with fellow alto player Steve Coleman and later with pianist Kenny Werner, ...

Remi Bolduc: Cote d

by Michael McCaw
November 10, 2005

Inspired by an off-hand comment comes Cote d'écoute, a recording of Radio Canada TV theme songs that is full-bodied and mature, dispensing with the shtick that can hamper such material. It turns out that Remi Bolduc was looking for his own folk music when the recommendation came, and it provided a link to his childhood and the sounds he was looking for: those which helped form a foundation and function as a sort of musical bedrock for him.Make ...

Remi Bolduc: Cote D'Ecoute

by John Kelman
April 29, 2005

Source material can, on the surface, come from the strangest of places. In addition to seemingly endless reworkings of the Great American Songbook, contemporary jazzers are now looking farther afield, with artists like the Bad Plus bringing an improvisational approach to material by groups like Blondie and Black Sabbath. Brad Mehldau has been mining the repertoire of Radiohead and Nick Drake, and Rachel Z has re-imagined songs by groups including Smashing Pumpkins and Soundgarden.

So when Rémi Bolduc, a French ...