Jazz Articles about Francois Moutin

About Francois Moutin

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Gary Versace Trio: Three Track Mind

Read "Three Track Mind" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
June 8, 2026

La figura di Gary Versace sembra appartenere alla categoria dei “musician's musician," artisti molto stimati dai colleghi ma poco conosciuti dal vasto pubblico. Le sue collaborazioni sono molte e prestigiose e in quelle dove ha maggior visibilità (pensiamo all'orchestra di Maria Schneider) non suona il pianoforte ma la fisarmonica o l'organo. I suoi dischi da leader in 25 anni d'attività sono pochi e tra i recenti in piano trio abbiamo solo All for Now del 2020 e Time Frame del 2022, ...

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Raphaël Pannier Quartet & Khadim Niang Sabar Group: Live In Saint Louis, Senegal

Read "Live In Saint Louis, Senegal" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
March 22, 2026

For many people, life is a maze that they navigate the best they can--unaided by the guiding hand of destiny. For a much smaller number, the clear course of their life presents itself early on. Take Raphael Pannier. At just three years of age, he saw Djabote, a performance video by Senegalese sabar percussionist N'Diaye Rose. The Parisian toddler knew then that rhythms would guide his way. And so it proved. A student of classical percussion in Paris, ...

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Louis Moutin, Jowee Omicil, Francois Moutin: M.O.M.

Read "M.O.M." reviewed by Neri Pollastri

by Neri Pollastri
May 3, 2024

Un trio nato per caso, da un incontro sul set della serie Netflix The Eddy, M.O.M. Prende il nome dalle iniziali dei suoi membri --il sassofonista canadese di origini haitiane Jowee Omicil e i due fratelli francesi Louis Moutin e Francois Moutin --ed evoca il termine francese mômes, “bambini," che rimanda al modo in cui i tre artisti affrontano la musica: ludicamente, con fantasia, gusto dell'esplorare assieme le sue possibilità. Registrato subito dopo l'incontro in una sessione molto ...

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Eva Slongo: Souffle

Read "Souffle" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
July 14, 2022

Improvisation was once a norm for classical musicians, and not just for geniuses such as Bach, Mozart, Liszt or Paganini. That freedom has, to a very large degree, been curtailed by classical music institutions, along with composition. On Souffle, her second album following Inspirations (Unit Records, 2016), Swiss-born, Paris-based violinist Eva Slongo breaks a few metaphorical eggs in bringing the worlds of classical music and jazz together. Of the nine tracks, six are originals, with Slongo's arrangements of Fauré, Beethoven ...

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Arbenz X Vistel / Moutin: Conversation #4 (Vulcanized)

Read "Conversation #4 (Vulcanized)" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
February 28, 2022

Prompted by the pandemic, drummer and percussionist Florian Arbenz has set out to document 12 Conversations with musicians invited into his Basel, Switzerland recording studio. Conversation #1: Condensed was a trio with Brazilian guitarist Nelson Veras and American trumpeter Hermon Mehari. Conversation #2 & #3 found Arbenz with British vibraphonist Jim Hart and Swiss bassist Jim Hart. Here we have the drummer teaming up with French bassist François Moutin and Cuban also saxophonist Maikel Vistel, who collaborates with the drummer ...

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Raphaël Pannier Quartet: Faune

by Jerome Wilson
January 24, 2021

On his first recording as a leader, drummer Raphaël Pannier shows himself to be a musician who has one foot in the classical world and one foot in jazz. He leads his group in a set of original and classic compositions from both genres, maintaining a sense of formal grace and improvisational energy throughout. Pannier's quartet performs two familiar jazz tunes. A version of Ornette Coleman's “Lonely Woman" flows with somber intensity; Miguel Zenon's alto flies and Ben ...

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Raphaël Pannier Quartet: Faune

by Dan Bilawsky
November 3, 2020

The debut from drummer Raphaël Pannier has no difficulty laying out references to modern modes of impressionism and the nature of wildlife implied in its title. Its opener --a ten-minute take on Ornette Coleman's “Lonely Woman" that offers slinky melody, sophisticated coloring, intense upheaval, a bass soliloquy and a return to the shadowy theme--is but the first of many indications that Pannier can paint open compositions in altered light while also awakening and taming tension. It's an artful display of ...