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Eric Plandé / Hasse Poulsen / Claude Tchamitchian: Beyond Dreams

Read "Beyond Dreams" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
June 13, 2022

Here, we can throw genre type discussions out the door, since this European trio transparently interconnects worldly motifs with tribal insinuations, classic free jazz interplay and asymmetrically improvised and structured song forms. In addition, the musicians artfully generate a magnetic field that also includes bluesy vamps with melodious contrasts and unison phrasings, often cast with ethereal backdrops and chromatic tonalities. On “Levitation" the trio ratifies the song moniker with serene etudes and spacey progressions, heightened by guitarist Hasse ...

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Claude Tchamitchian e il Questionario di Proust

by Paolo Peviani
February 5, 2015

All About Jazz: Il tratto principale della mia musica. Claude Tchamitchian: Credo proprio che dirlo spetti a quelli che mi ascoltano. AAJ: La qualità che desidero nei musicisti che suonano con me. C.T.: La stessa di quando io suono con loro: la presenza. AAJ: Come musicista, il momento in cui sono stato più felice. C.T.: È un po' troppo riduttivo. Ho la fortuna di suonare solo con persone ...