Jazz Articles about Lucien Dubuis

Lucien Dubuis Trio: Le Retour

by Elliott Simon
June 5, 2008

Lucien Dubuis can blow it. Roman Nowka can pick it. Lionel Friedli can kick it. Le Retour, dig it. Difficult to describe but drawing inspiration from punk, funk, no wave and jazz, it is as if Parliament Funkadelic grew up downtown stripped of all their horns but one--but what a cool horn it is. Dubuis amazes with the deep growls and shrill over-blows he delivers from his alto sax but particularly from his bass and contra-bass clarinets. ...

Lucien Dubuis Trio: Le Retour

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 18, 2008

Qualche riferimento ai manga, una spruzzata di ironia, un po' di rock, funk, pop. Sono questi gli ingredienti principali del nuovo album del trio del sassofonista e clarinettista svizzero Lucien Dubuis, trio che lo stesso musicista, nel proprio sito, definisce come Crossover Jazz Trio. Siamo dunque ovviamente lontani dal canonico mainstream. Ci pare anzi che siamo piuttosto distanti dal jazz in generale. Le sonorità, le ritmiche, i groove sono molto più vicini al rock. Il trio non va molto per ...

Lucien Dubuis: Le Retour

by Mark Corroto
December 4, 2007

When jazz musicians were rocks stars... Wait, when rock stars were rock stars and not contestants for the next TV talent show, the music could be dangerous. But in these days when war is the new democracy, jazz stars are the new rock stars. Playing it safe is not the object for Lucian Dubuis' trio; its music is indeed dangerous.Le Retour is the follow-up to Tovorak (Tovorak Records, 2005), and it again rocks. Sure, Dubuis' primary instrument is ...

Lucien Dubuis Trio: Tovorak

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 22, 2006

La scena jazzistica svizzera è sempre più popolata da giovani musicisti che, pur senza trascurare una certa tradizione (in particolare le atmosfere sghembe di Monk), non ha paura di affermare che il proprio percorso musicale è passato anche attraverso altre esperienze “meno nobili" (virgolette d'obbligo) come il rock o il funk. Appartiene senza ombra di dubbio a questa schiera di musicisti il sassofonista e clarinettista Lucien Dubuis, che in compagnia del chitarrista Roman Nowka (altro musicista molto interessante ed anti-convenzionale) ...

Lucien Dubuis: Tovorak

by Mark Corroto
February 15, 2006

Lucien Dubuis answers the musical question which Miles Davis' later bands always sought to resolve. Why can't jazz bands be entertaining like rock bands? Dubuis tackles that one on Tovorak while shaking you, sometimes violently.

Sure sure, jazzbos have injected punk attitude and funk into their music for some time. Think of early Ken Vandermark with Big Head Eddie, John Zorn and Marc Ribot's 1980s Knitting Factory work, and the Lounge Lizards. All shared rock sensibilities, their real ...