Jazz Articles about MegaOctet

MegaOctet: E Total

by Anthony Shaw
June 21, 2012

As the 15-page spread in the May, 2012 issue of French Jazz Magazine demonstrated, Andy Emler is a Frenchman with a special gift. Not only a creative composer and arranger, as well as a broadly talented keyboardist, he is the man who has found ways to harness the redoubtable creative energies of his notoriously temperamental countrymen in a large, though not quite big, band. And he's done this for over 20 years. What's more, these fellow Frenchmen include some of ...