Jazz Articles about Resavoir

Resavoir: Resavoir

by Gareth Thompson
August 29, 2019

In the early 1950s, David Axelrod was hanging out in a Los Angeles park when a group of thugs mistook him for their target and sliced the musician with a knife. It feels apt to mention this in tandem with Resavoir's debut album for two reasons. Firstly, the shimmering spirit of Axelrod's music is a clear reference point here. Secondly, an echo of violence is strangely present on this mostly Saturnalian record, as witnessed on closing cut “LML," written after ...