Jazz Articles about Francois Moutin

About Francois Moutin

Album Review

Rudresh Mahanthappa: Bird Calls

Read "Bird Calls" reviewed by Dave Wayne

by Dave Wayne
February 15, 2015

On Bird Calls, alto saxophonist and composer Rudresh Mahanthappa takes on the music of Charlie Parker in a personal and profound way, accompanied by his whip-smart, uber-hip and youthful backing band. Let's face it, folks; this is the sort of thing a jazz fan's daydreams are made of. The result doesn't disappoint; Bird Calls is a masterpiece, and will certainly grace many a critic's year end “Top 10" list. It's evident that Mahanthappa thought this album through from ...

Album Review

Rudresh Mahanthappa: Bird Calls

Read "Bird Calls" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
January 17, 2015

Charlie Parker has been deified, his methods have been codified, and his recordings have been analyzed ad infinitum. Six decades have passed since he left this realm, yet he remains the lodestar for a significant portion of the jazz community, from the aspiring to the elite, and his influence hasn't waned one bit. Given all of that, it's astonishing to realize that so few players have taken chances by looking beyond the songs, the music theory, the recordings, and the ...

Extended Analysis

Rudresh Mahanthappa: Bird Calls

by Victor L. Schermer
January 13, 2015

In this innovative album, Rudresh Mahanthappa is to “Yardbird" Charlie Parker what Albert Einstein was to Isaac Newton. He revises Parker's legacy to his own advanced understanding, yet preserves the essential truth of Parker's contribution to jazz. One genius says “hello" to another and then goes his own way. The result is an exciting “leaning in" to Bird's bebop while retaining Mahanhtappa's unique synthesis of the jazz idiom with the music of India and other parts of the world. This ...

Album Review

Pilc - Moutin - Hoenig: Threedom

by AAJ Italy Staff
December 1, 2011

Il titolo del CD è quanto mai appropriato nell'indicare la libera interazione tra i tre musicisti, che va dalla composizione al sound di gruppo. Questo nuovo progetto è forse l'esito più avvincente di una liaison musicale intrapresa nel 1995 dove Pilc opera una originale opera di sintesi tra il proprio sostrato culturale legato all'Europa ed il linguaggio afroamericano. Qui il pianista di origini francesi oggi statunitense non prende il largo da solo, anzi riesce ad essere un sostegno ed uno ...

Album Review

K.J. Denhert: Album no.9

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 29, 2011

Nove come le canzoni, i musicisti impiegati, i mesi serviti per registrare. Nove come il giorno, il mese e l'anno in cui sono iniziate le session. La simpaticissima chitarrista newyorkese scherza con la numerologia. Dice che, in fondo, tutto questo non può non dirsi frutto di semplici coincidenze. Conosce la chitarra dall'età di 10 anni e non ha mai smesso di ascoltare e praticare la fusione a caldo delle idee, le più diverse possibili. Ascoltandola si capisce che la sua ...