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Daunik Lazro, Benjamin Duboc, Mathieu Bec: Standards Combustion

Read "Standards Combustion" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
January 7, 2024

The French trio of saxophonist Daunik Lazro, bassist Benjamin Duboc, and drummer Mathieu Bec has released a collection of music with the fitting title Standards Combustion. Their covers of two compositions each by John Coltrane and Albert Ayler, and one each by Steve Lacy and Wayne Shorter do not so much burn down these nuggets as utilize them as a kind of touch-paper. Sometimes listeners in the 21st century forget the chronology of music's development. This is especially ...

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Daunik Lazro: Garden(s)

Read "Garden(s)" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
July 14, 2017

This progressive French trio features musicians who have respectively been at the forefront of Euro improvisational circles, partaking in numerous small and large ensemble formats. The synergy and inventive concepts many of us would anticipate is wholly inherent here, as the band covers Duke Ellington, Albert Ayler and John Coltrane bordering three group composed pieces “Garden(s) 1 through 3" and trumpeter Jean-Luc Cappozzo's “Joy Spirit." Cappozzo brings Ellington's “Sophisticated Lady" to the wild side via an opening duet ...

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Daunik Lazro - Jean-Francois Pauvros - Roger Turner: Curare

Read "Curare" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
November 13, 2012

Questo bel trio è composto da due francesi (il saxofonista Daunik Lazro e il chitarrista Jean-Francois Pauvros) e dall'inglese Roger Turner, batterista raffinato e preciso che ricordiamo alla corte di Annette Peacock tra la fine degli anni ottanta e l'inizio degli anni novanta. I quattro brani che compongono Curare sono stati registrati dal vivo in due occasioni: la prima a Montreuil nel novembre del 2008, la seconda a Besancon a fine giugno del 2010. Sono lunghe escursioni nei territori dell'avanguardia, ...

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Daunik Lazro / Jean Francois Pauvros / Roger Turner: Curare

by John Sharpe
March 19, 2012

Silence could be the fourth member of the group responsible for the cooperatively derived Curare, joining the French pairing of reed supremo Daunik Lazro and guitarist Jean-Francois Pauvros with English drummer Roger Turner. As the four cuts are sourced from two live dates some 20 months apart, this cross-Channel aggregation is clearly not a one-off. Lazro may still be best known for his collaborations with fellow reedmen Joe McPhee and Evan Parker, but over a thirty-plus year career he has ...

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Daunik Lazro: Some Other Zongs

Read "Some Other Zongs" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
October 5, 2011

To designate saxophonist Daunik Lazro the French Joe McPhee--or, perhaps, the French equivalent to Evan Parker--is to illustrate not only the proficiency he has with his instrument, but his formidable improvisational skills. For his second solo release, Some Other Zongs, he sticks solely to the finicky and often blunt baritone saxophone--an instrument which, in the hands of a master musician like Lazro, sheds its dull and undistinguished patina to emerge full-flowered. Some Other Zongs follows his previous solo ...

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Daunik Lazro and Carlos "Zingaro": Hauts plateaux

by Glenn Astarita
January 1, 1999

Veteran improvisers-composers Daunik Lazro and Carlos “Zingaro” have teamed up to produce a mesmerizing series of loosely structured compositions beautifully recorded at “Cite’ de la Musique” in Marseille France. The highly regarded saxophonist Lazro has performed with the creme’ de la creme’ of modern jazz improvisers; although, discovering his early roots via hard bop. Violinist “Zingaro” brings to the table classical training and finely honed improvisational prowess. This is a fascinating excursion that commences with a piece titled “Gravir la ...