Jazz Articles about Fidel Fourneyron

About Fidel Fourneyron

Album Review

Somewhere Han Bennink is very jealous of the music making of the trio Un Poco Loco. The master of 'New Dutch Swing' hijinks would give his right crash cymbal to perform music in the manner this trio covers Charlie Parker on Ornithologie. The aptly designated Un Poco Loco ('a bit crazy') trio is trombonist Fidel Fourneyron, saxophonist and clarinetist Geoffroy Gesser, and bassist Sébastien Beliah. All three musicians are also members of the Umlaut Big Band, which focuses on 1920s ...

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Que Vola, when French Jazz meets Cuban rumba

by Raphael Perez
January 19, 2020

French trombonist Fidel Fourneyron launched his Que Vola project in 2017 while visiting Cuba and playing with local band Osain del Monte. Call it French Jazz meets Cuban rumba.... and the result is a real blow! They gave an energetic show in Paris in February 2019 during the Sons d'Hiver Festival at Musée Branly Theater in celebration of their album release. Recently, Fidel Fourneyron was awarded most promising artist 2019 by the French Jazz Academy and it was well deserved. ...