Jazz Articles about Benoit Delbecq

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Album Review

Benoit Delbecq: The Weight of Light

Read "The Weight of Light" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann
February 26, 2021

Parisian pianist & composer Benoît Delbecq has not recorded a solo album in more than a decade. His collaborations are with impressive company including Tim Berne, Tom Rainey, Lotte Anker, Mark Turner, Steve Argüelles, Gerald Cleaver, Marc Ducret, Gerry Hemingway, Mary Halvorson, Taylor Ho Bynum, and Kris Davis. It is Davis' Pyroclastic Records that Delbecq calls home for the eclectic collection The Weight of Light. Delbecq is not a household name in the U.S.A.; many of his recordings ...

Album Review

Benoit Delbecq: The Weight Of Light

Read "The Weight Of Light" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
February 19, 2021

The experience of sound can incite ruminations on the laws of physics, on geometrics, time, space and spirituality. The music on pianist Benoit Debecq's The Weight Of Light--his first solo recording in more than a decade--does just that. It also conjures images of the shape of the African continent that birthed a jumble of rhythmic designs. This outing was influenced, in part, by hanging mobiles, suspended moveable shapes that create different perspectives on shadow and light, taking the ...

Album Review

Benoit Delbecq: The Weight of Light

Read "The Weight of Light" reviewed by Neri Pollastri

by Neri Pollastri
February 8, 2021

Sperimentatore sulla tastiera e sul pentagramma, in equilibro tra il jazz e la contemporanea, il francese Benoit Delbecq è un vero maestro del pianoforte preparato, che ha più volte proposto sia entro gruppi di varie dimensioni, sia in solo, come accade in questo The Weight of Light, appena uscito per la Pyroclastic Records di Kris Davis. L'intero lavoro è incentrato su un raffinato contrappunto di suoni, con la mano destra che descrive frammentate e mutevoli linee melodiche, mentre ...

Album Review

Sarah Murcia: Eyeballing

Read "Eyeballing" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero
March 9, 2020

A poco più di vent'anni entra a far parte della Magic Malik Orchestra, formazione nella quale resterà per oltre due lustri. Poi la carriera di Sarah Murcia (studi classici di pianoforte e violoncello prima, il contrabbasso sotto la guida di Jean-Francois Jenny-Clark poi) apre nuovi orizzonti. Diviene apprezzata compositrice di musiche da film, teatro e danza ma conserva forti legami con il mondo della musica improvvisata e di suoi illuminati rappresentanti (Steve Coleman ed il pluripremiato quintetto di Louis Sclavis ...

Album Review

Benoit Delbecq 4: Spots On Stripes

Read "Spots On Stripes" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
December 22, 2018

In the animal kingdom both spots and stripes contribute to the camouflage which keeps the wearer hidden from either potential predators or prey. There's something similarly disorientating about this enigmatic album from French pianist Benoit Delbecq. Renowned as someone who has taken John Cage's idea of prepared piano into the jazz sphere, Delbecq has studied with sources as varied as free jazz bassist Alan Silva, legendary post bop pianist Mal Waldron and composer Solange Ancona, a former student of Olivier ...

Radio & Podcasts

Black Motor, Tomasz Stanko and Other New Releases

by Maurice Hogue
September 12, 2018

Finland's power trio, Black Motor, is sure to get your own motor running with a pair of tracks from a live recording issued by We Jazz. The music comes from a We Jazz festival held in Berlin in October last year which showcases some of their artists. This week's show also features music from the heart and soul of Polish Jazz and one of the most important players in improvised music, Tomasz Stanko who passed away July 29th. As well, ...

My Favourite Things

Benoît Delbecq e il Questionario di Proust

by Paolo Peviani
December 20, 2017

Il tratto principale della mia musica La sonorità. La qualità che desidero nei musicisti che suonano con me La generosità. Come musicista, il momento in cui sono stato più felice Quando ho incontrato Mal Waldron, a 17 anni, nel 1983. Come musicista, il mio principale difetto La lettura a prima vista. La mia più grande paura quando suono Che il piano non tenga ...