Jazz Articles about Sylvaine Helary

Sylvaine Helary: Sylvaine Helary Trio

by Anthony Shaw
February 20, 2013

The French have long had an affinity for the surrealistic and the absurd--didn't they invent both expressions? Among the ranks of the leading left-field artists (from, of course, the left bank--the traditions stretch back to Antonin Artauld, the first to promote the first playable electronic keyboard, the Ondes Martenot, and Pierre Schaeffer, who created the expression “musique concrete." But as a world power the French have also absorbed influences from around the globe, even from across the ...