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Matthieu Bordenave

Matthieu Bordenave is a French saxophonist and clarinetist, who is currently based in Munich, Germany. Born in 1983 in Southern France, he began his early musical studies with classical saxophonist Christian Charnay and Jazz with Thierry Girault in Annecy, before he moved to Paris at the age of 17 where he worked Jazz Saxophone with André Villéger. He entered the national conservatory (CNSM), studying in its department of jazz and improvised music. His workshops teachers in Paris included: Chris Potter, Louis Sclavis, Paolo Fresu, Marc Johnson and renowned bass-clarinetists Jean-Marc Volta and Philippe-Olivier Deveaux

The Blue Land

By Matthieu Bordenave

Label: ECM Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: La Porte Entrouverte; The Blue Land; Compassion; Cyrus; Refraction; Distance; Three Four; Timbre; Three Peaks.

New Music From Ches Smith, Eva Novoa, Arve Henriksen & Harmen Fraanj, And More

by Bob Osborne
February 8, 2024

On this show we feature new music from Ches Smith, Eva Novoa, Arve Henriksen & Harmen Fraanj, Matthieu Bordenave, Adam Schroeder & Mark Masters, Ewart Asplund Ricks Trio , Christoph Gallio Day & Taxi, Recabarren Menares Vazquez, Ken Vandermark's Edition Redux, Drazek Fuscaldo Drake Aoki Jones & Abrams, and a recording from the 1960s from Michael ...

Matthieu Bordenave: The Blue Land

by Mike Jurkovic
February 7, 2024

Getting across the great open land beneath big sky country is full of epic moments. The Blue Land, French saxophonist Matthieu Bordenave's second for ECM, is that migrant's diary. As he so skillfully rendered on his 2020 ECM debut La Traversée, Bordenave again enters the studio conjoined with the assertive mood swings of bassist ...

La Porte Entrouverte

February 2, 2024

Album: The Blue Land
By Matthieu Bordenave
Label: ECM Records
Released: 2024
Duration: 05:43

Jazz Juniors 2023

by Martin Longley
November 26, 2023

Cricoteka Kraków, Poland October 12-15, 2023 Your scribe views his regular documentation of the annual Jazz Juniors competition-and-festival as an opportunity to insert a few rogue words once the heavy doors of official judgement have swung shut. Never a sitting judge, he wields his bloodied quill after the event, ...

Shinya Fukumori: Another Story

by Friedrich Kunzmann
February 6, 2021

When joining the ranks of ECM as a drummer, you can be sure to be subject of comparisons to the many drum legends who have extensive recording histories with the label— late veterans Paul Motian or Jon Christensen. Much like the two multiple-eras-defining pioneers, Japanese drummer Shinya Fukumori's approach to the role of his instrument, as ...

La Traversée

By Matthieu Bordenave

Label: ECM Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: River (duet); Archipel; Le temps Divisé; Dans mon Pays; The Path; Ventoux; Incendie Blanc; Chaleur Grise; River (trio).

Matthieu Bordenave: La Traversée

by Friedrich Kunzmann
December 19, 2020

The French word La Traversée may equally refer to a crossing, a passage or a journey. Surely related yet with disparate meanings, the three terms have a sense of motion in common. How defined that motion is and whether it's backward, forward, or even sideways, remains unknown. The only thing for certain is its determination to ...

Shinya Fukumori: For 2 Akis

by Neri Pollastri
November 8, 2018

Una bella sorpresa questo trio multinazionale (ma con sede a Monaco) al debutto per ECM, guidato dal trentaquattrenne giapponese Shinya Fukumori e completato dal trentacinquenne tenorsassofonista francese Matthieu Bordenave e dal cinquantasettenne pianista tedesco Walter Lang. Fukumori, che prima di dedicarsi alla batteria aveva suonato il violino e il pianoforte, è giunto alcuni anni ...