Jazz Articles about Michel Lambert

Michel Lambert: Le Passant (The Wanderer)

by Jerry D'Souza
December 9, 2005

Michel Lambert began working on the music on Le Passant (The Wanderer) in 1992. Time, however, brought about changes. He reduced his original symphonic work to its current instrumentation. He calls it a meeting of the two forces and a confrontation between music that is through-composed and freely improvised. The latter is seen in complete detail on the last seven pieces, which are improv-based. The first five (together comprising “Le Passant") have the improvisers and the orchestra meeting and finding ...

Michel Lambert: Out Twice

by AAJ Staff
May 25, 2003

With the advent of free improvisation--or spontaneous composition, as some prefer to call it--formal structure ceased to be a fence so much as a path. But no matter how hard some improvisers may have tried, the random walk just never became reality. So that path has taken a central importance in defining the styles that shape free improvisation today.

Québécois-cum-world-traveler Michel Lambert's path on Out Twice depends upon interpreting images, an idea many have explored but few have managed to ...

Michel Lambert: Out Twice

by Frank Rubolino
May 16, 2003

Michel Lambert divided his drumming leadership between two trios on Out Twice, one with pianist Milcho Leviev and bassist John Giannelli, and the other with bassist Barre Phillips and saxophonist Lionel Garcin. He also split his recording venues between American and European sites.

Both ventures were unique; Lambert used his personal drawings and sketches as inspiration for the trios in their free interpretation of music and its relationship to visual art. Lambert’s drawings are linked individually to ...