Jazz Articles about Marc Ducret

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Tim Berne's Snakeoil: The Fantastic Mrs. 10

Read "The Fantastic Mrs. 10" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero
June 1, 2020

Ci sono due novità nella sesta uscita discografica a nome Snakeoil. La prima è il debutto su Intakt, etichetta svizzera indipendente dedicata all'improvvisazione spesso radicale e all'avanguardia, apparentemente assai distante dall'estetica ECM, label presso la quale gli Snakeoil di Tim Berne debuttarono nell'ormai lontano 2012. La seconda riguarda la formazione che partita come quartetto, con la registrazione di You've Been Watching Me vede aggiungersi la chitarra di Ryan Ferreira confermata anche nel successivo Incidentals, ma qui sostituita da quella di ...

Album Review

Tim Berne's Snakeoil: The Fantastic Mrs. 10

Read "The Fantastic Mrs. 10" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
March 30, 2020

Alto saxophonist Tim Berne has never met anything or anyone he doesn't instantly want to re-invent, invert, dismantle and polish into his own image. And no, it's not any kind of savior thing, messianic impulse or Dr. Stranglove fixation. He simply hears and sees things more offbeat, peculiar, and colorful, thank you very much. So too does any configuration of Snakeoil, Berne's wiry, spidery and like-minded core of engineers. As a league onto themselves, bass clarinetist Oscar Noriega, ...

Album Review

Tim Berne's Snakeoil: The Fantastic Mrs. 10

Read "The Fantastic Mrs. 10" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
March 27, 2020

Saxophonist Tim Berne figured out what he wanted to do early on, with albums like Ancestors (Soul Note, 1983), Nice Winter ( Winter & Winter, 1993), Science Friction (Screwgun, 2002) and Snake Oil (ECM Records, 2012)—to pick one representative recording per decade from a jam-packed discography. “I'm doing the same thing I've been doing from the start," he says. That thing is making madcap tapestries with various ensemble configurations, forming a collective voice full of piss and vinegar.

Album Review

Tim Berne's Snakeoil: The Fantastic Mrs. 10

Read "The Fantastic Mrs. 10" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
February 9, 2020

Imagine Tim Berne as the lead in the 1980's' American television series The A-Team, declaring: “I love it when a plan comes together!" He must return to that catchphrase every time his ensemble Snakeoil finishes a recording. After four outings on Manfred Eicher's ECM Records, the previous being Incidentals (2017), he moves his A-Team to Intakt Records. The Fantastic Mrs. 10 confirms this ensemble is on par with the saxophonist's other great band, Bloodcount, with Chris Speed, Jim Black, Michael ...

Radio & Podcasts

Anti-Rubber Brain Factory & Sameer Gupta

by Maurice Hogue
June 19, 2019

This episode features two extremely original albums from France, and they couldn't be more different. Guitarist Marc Ducret tackles Shakespeare on his Lady M. He's not the first to look to the Bard of Avon for inspiration (Duke Ellington and Cleo Laine come to mind immediately), but he may be the first one to frame one of Lady MacBeth's soliloquy's with such hard-nosed guitar. The other recording is from the eclectic, always “what's next?," Anti-Rubber Brain Factory led by bassist ...

Album Review

Marc Ducret - Joëlle Léandre: Chez Hélène

Read "Chez Hélène" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
January 17, 2019

The audience in attendance at the 19PaulFort venue in Paris, France must have been spellbound after witnessing these prolific and highly influential improvisers wield their magic. As leaders and collaborators bassist Joëlle Léandre and guitarist Marc Ducret have pretty much done it all over the years, evidenced by their extensive discographies. Here, the bassist is a galvanized catalyst via her fervent and precise strumming and impossibly fast bowing patterns as Ducret is often the colorist as they counterbalance each other ...

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Marc Ducret: Tower-Bridge

Read "Tower-Bridge" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero
December 22, 2014

Nell'arco del triennio 2011-2013 il repertorio del progetto di Marc Ducret denominato Tower ha visto come interpreti un quintetto franco-danese (Vol. 1), un quartetto franco-americano (Vol. 2), un sestetto francese (Vol. 3), e un solo di chitarra acustica ( Vol. 4). Il quinto capitolo di questa avventura riunisce in un ensemble di dodici elementi tutti i musicisti coinvolti nei precedenti quattro volumi, e si concretizza in un doppio CD registrato dal vivo durante la tournée del 2012, arricchito da un'interessante ...