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Damien Varaillon

Ludovico Granvassu's Garden of Jazzy Delights 2023

by Ludovico Granvassu
January 3, 2024

If it is true that, like The Police once put it, “when the world is going down you make the best of what's still around," then throughout 2023 jazz fans were better off than most other social groups. In a year in which everyday news brought ever more inconceivable disappointments, jazz musicians, labels, festivals and venues ...

A Few of My Favorite 2023 Jazz Things (so far) - Part 3

by Ludovico Granvassu
July 25, 2023

Last week we focused our playlist on some of our favorite tracks from the first six months of 2023. Evidently two hours were not enough and we could not play them all... so here we are going through the rest of the best.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash ...

Tineke Postma, Ella Zirina, Mario Costa, Rachel Therrien & Other New Releases

by Ludovico Granvassu
April 8, 2023

Six decades separate Latvian guitarist Ella Zirina, who's 25, from Charles Lloyd who just turned 85. But the beauty of music is that obliterates any conventional notion of time and space, so here's a playlist that hops from country to country and from generation to generation in search of a beauty continuum.Happy listening!

Un autre monde

By Naïssam Jalal

Label: Les Couleurs du Son
Released: 2021
Track listing: CD1: Studio album: Buleria Sarkhat Al Ard; Hymne à la noix; Un sourire au cœur; Un monde neuf; Samaaï Al Andalus; Promenade au bord du rêve; D’ailleurs nous sommes d’ici. CD2: Live: Paysages de notre destin; Un sourire au cœur; Un monde neuf; Samaaï Al Andalus; Almot Wala Almazala.

56th Jazzaldia Festival

by Paul Combs
September 6, 2021

56th Jazzaldia Festival Various venues Donostia/San Sebastián, Spain July 21-25, 2021 This was the 56th edition of the Jazzaldia Festival in Donostia/San Sebastián, the capital of Gipuzcoa province in the Pais Vasco region on the north coast of Spain. With a population of roughly 200,000, and popularity as a tourist ...

Naïssam Jalal: Un autre monde

by Henning Bolte
March 17, 2021

Some may see the flute as an odd one out in jazz. For France that certainly does not apply. France has Michel Edelin from the older generation and, for example, Magic Malik, Eve Risser, Sylvaine Hélary and Naïssam Jalal from the younger. A flautist needs good sonic allies to embed flute sounds in and/or ...

I Ain't Got Nothin' But The Blues

By Yuval Amihai

Label: Fresh Sound Records
Released: 2018

Matteo Pastorino: Suite for Modigliani

by Neri Pollastri
January 24, 2018

Nuovo lavoro del clarinettista sardo di stanza a Parigi Matteo Pastorino (clicca qui per leggere la sua intervista del 2015), con una formazione che sviluppa il quartetto del suo precedente V, sostituendovi solo il contrabbassista, adesso Damien Varaillon, e ospitando in alcune tracce la chitarra di Gilad Hekselman. Come da titolo, Suite for Modigliani ...