Results for "The Contest of Pleasures"

The Contest of Pleasures

Albi Days

By The Contest of Pleasures

Label: Potlatch Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Les Oignons; Garden Cress; Winter Squash; Karfiol; Les Cornichons.

The Contest of Pleasures: Albi Days

by John Eyles
August 4, 2006

For Albi Days, their second Potlatch recording, The Contest of Pleasures (now the trio's name, formerly an album title; you may recall a similar thing happened with “Foxes Fox" ) adopted a very different methodology to the first, reflecting some of the shifts that have taken place in improv in the five years between the releases. ...

The Contest Of Pleasures

By John Butcher

Label: Challenge Jazz
Released: 2001

John Butcher/Xavier Charles/Axel Dorner: The Contest Of Pleasures

by Mark Corroto
September 1, 2001

The occasion of this live recording was a jazz festival in Hulhouse, at the southern end of Alsace. The musicians, Jon Butcher, Xavier Charles, and Axel Dorner came together in the Chapelle Saint-Jean on a hot August day in 2000, to create spontaneous music. What was captured was on overtly patient documentation of three improvisors working ...

John Butcher - Xavier Charles - Axel Dorner: The Contest of Pleasures

by Glenn Astarita
July 1, 2001

Recorded live at the “Jazz a’ Mulhouse Festival”, The Contest of Pleasures is a subtly dynamic improvising extravaganza brought to us by three forward thinking European horn men; saxophonist John Butcher, clarinetist Xavier Charles and trumpeter Axel Dorner. With this newly issued outing, the musicians’ explore abstruse regions of sound amid odd voicings, high-pitched harmonies, intricate ...