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Christophe Wallemme

Start "So Many Ways..."

By Christophe Wallemme

Label: Bee Jazz
Released: 2008
Track listing: Quartz; To Bee or Not to Bee; Portrait of Cendrine; Picture in Black and White; Wanted; Where Is My Way?; Today Perhaps; Pharaon's Dance; U-Turn; Certainly Tomorrow; U-Turn (Version 2).

Christophe Wallemme: Start "So Many Ways..."

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
December 7, 2008

Christophe Wallemme describes this effort as a “wink at the great standards of American jazz," a laudable objective but an affirmation that seems intended to confuse the listener. The explicit musical references on Start “So Many Ways..." point instead to Antonio Carlos Jobim and Miles Davis' Bitches Brew rather than “Body and Soul" or ...

Namaste

By Christophe Wallemme

Label: Bee Jazz
Released: 2007
Track listing: Holi; Mon Jules; Namaste; Le temps des moussons; Tandoori Groove; Sweet Aum; Reflection; Stone Cutter; Trouble Time; Diwali; La Javanaise.

Christophe Wallemme: Namaste

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
January 31, 2007

The achievement of Namaste--and it is a genuine achievement--is also the achievement of Miles Davis's In a Silent Way (Columbia, 1969): namely, providing room to breathe in a crowded room of musicians--soloists all, not a big band. (On Miles's subsequent Bitches Brew (Columbia, 1969), in contrast, a crowded room of musicians was happy to sound like ...