Jazz Articles about Benjamin Flament

About Benjamin Flament

Album Review

Oiseau Murmure: Oiseau Murmure

Read "Oiseau Murmure" reviewed by Andrew Hunter

by Andrew Hunter
June 10, 2026

Oiseau Murmure, the name of the band and the record, means, literally, whispering birds. It also describes birds in murmuration--the beautiful, elastic clouds in which birds whisper at dusk. How fitting for such a beautiful work as this. Ouisea Murmure is a trio consisting of three very accomplished, very experienced musicians, taking some time away from their many individual projects to create something 'fragile and free,' composed in the moment. Nicolas Naudet plays clarinets, sometimes quite ...

Album Review

Sylvain Rifflet: Troubadours

Read "Troubadours" reviewed by Anthony Shaw

by Anthony Shaw
July 23, 2020

Sylvain Rifflet has been playing adventurous, somewhat rock-related jazz for since around 2000, and for much of the time has done so alongside a trumpeter. His emergence on the international scene in the first decade of this century was with the French quintet Rockingchair, where his co-leader was contemporary French trumpeter, Arielle Besson. They were awarded a 'Django d'Or' medal for their first album and subsequent releases have been well received. On the 2019 album Troubadour, Rifflet is ...

Album Review

Sylvain Rifflet: Troubadours

Read "Troubadours" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
March 24, 2020

In questo decennio il sassofonista Sylvain Rifflet s'è imposto tra gli emergenti più eclettici del jazz francese con dischi molto apprezzati, come l'audace Mechanics (Jazz Village 2015) e l'orchestrale Refocus (Verve 2017). In quest'ultimo ha voluto affermare la sua filiazione per Stan Getz (di cui rilegge l'album Focus) anche se la vicinanza è solo timbrica e la ricerca espressiva è ampiamente personale. In questo nuovo lavoro cambia ancora direzione e s'ispira alle musiche dei trovatori nell'Occitania del 12° ...