Jazz Articles about Marc Ducret

About Marc Ducret

Album Review

Each one of French guitarist Marc Ducret's Tower series albums has featured different lineups and instrumentation. With Tower vol. 3, he employs a three-man trombone attack with percussion and piano performers; as stated in the album liners, the band “plays comments on the music already played." Therefore, the musicians redevelop and dissect previous works appearing on the first two volumes. At times polytonal via the divergent instrumentation mix, the trombonists' powerful choruses supply interesting contrasts as the band takes on ...

Album Review

Marc Ducret: Tower, Vol. 3

Read "Tower, Vol. 3" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
July 28, 2013

French guitarist Marc Ducret's new sextet, known also as the Real Thing #3 band, was supposed to mark the end of his Tower cycle of compositions, now spread over four discs and at least five projects: a solo guitar, quartet, quintet and the as-yet- unrecorded 12-member Tower-Bridge orchestra. This project was initiated by Ducret in 2008 as an attempt to mirror a musical texture to a chapter from writer Vladimir Nabokov's “Ada," in which he weaves a whole labyrinth made ...

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Samuel Blaser Quartet: As the Sea

Read "As the Sea" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 17, 2013

Quartetto d'eccezione quello allestito da Samuel Blaser, giovane trombonista svizzero che con una decina di incisioni si è costruito una solida reputazione tra i colleghi e unanimi apprezzamenti dagli addetti ai lavori. Perché se il bassista Banz Oester, pur vantando collaborazioni prestigiose con Pierre Favre ed Harry Hemingway, è nome non troppo noto, il batterista Gerald Cleaver ed il chitarrista Marc Ducret non hanno bisogno di presentazioni e contribuiscono in maniera decisiva alla riuscita di questo lavoro. Samuel Blaser è ...

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Samuel Blaser Quartet: As The Sea

Read "As The Sea" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
March 23, 2013

Allocating his time between Europe and New York City, Swiss-born trombone maestro Samuel Blaser has recorded for prominent record labels, specializing in the outside jazz realm. Thus, As The Sea is the quartet's follow-up to Boundless (hatOLOGY, 2011). Blaser's recognizable plight to lay out nouveau frontiers remains a continuum. No wonder why he's garnered the assistance of such reputable instrumentalists. Otherwise, the program contains a flux of contrapuntal statements. His musicality imparts breathy expansionism amid swarming movements that are purposely ...

Album Review

Samuel Blaser Quartet: As The Sea

Read "As The Sea" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
March 14, 2013

The whole of some musical outfits is greater than its separate parts. The Berlin-based, Swiss trombonist Samuel Blaser's Quartet is one of these outfits, comprised of resourceful musicians with strong personalities, distinct approaches that together complement the strengths of this band but also pushes it into newer terrains. Blaser is conservatory trained and university educated, has a perfect-pitch sound on the trombone and rich musical vision that encompasses anything between composer Richard Wagner's grandiose operas, classical Indian ...

Album Review

Marc Ducret: Tower, Vol. 4

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 31, 2013

Un uomo e la sua chitarra. In completa solitudine, dividendosi tra la cinquecentesca Civitella Ranieri, nel cuore antico dell'Umbria, e la cucina del sassofonista Matthieu Metzger, Marc Ducret approda al quarto capitolo del progetto Tower. A documentarlo, come i precedenti, la rediviva Ayler Records, etichetta con doppio passaporto: svedese di nascita, francese d'adozione. Quarto capitolo che, bizzarria discografica, arriva dopo il secondo, dedicato al super quartetto con Tim Berne, Tom Rainey e Dominique Pifarély, e prima del terzo, che uscirà ...

Album Review

Marc Ducret: Tower, Vol. 4

Read "Tower, Vol. 4" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
October 18, 2012

When French guitarist Marc Ducret began to plan his Tower book of works-- Vol. 1 (2010) for a Franco-Danish quintet and Vol. 2 (2011) for a Franco-American quartet (both on Ayler)-- he thought to transpose to his musical world a literary device that writer Vladimir Nabokov used in his 1969 book Ada. In this book, Nabokov weaves a whole labyrinth made of mirrors, memories and correspondences, eventually building a form which in turn leads to his other books, themes and ...