Jazz Articles about Sylvie Courvoisier

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Sylvie Courvoisier – Mark Feldman Quartet: To Fly To Steal

by Nic Jones
May 3, 2010

Between the membership of this quartet (Mark Feldman, Sylvie Courvoisier, Thomas Morgan, and Gerry Hemingway) embodies the twenty-first century improvising musician. All four members have recorded before and in a variety of situations of wide diversity. They bring all of the experience this implies to a program that stakes out its own territory, and from start to end, has set out a potent collective manifesto.

Drummer Gerry Hemingway has worked with Anthony Braxton's quartet in the past and it's clear ...

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Sylvie Courvoisier / Mark Feldman Quartet: To Fly To Steal

by Glenn Astarita
March 23, 2010

Violinist Mark Feldman and his wife, pianist Sylvie Courvoisier eloquently morph restraint, depth and a contemporary classical touch into the progressive-jazz idiom on this 2010 release. Respectively, the musicians are ceaselessly engaged within the new music style of jazz and improvisation, having recorded for several record labels, spanning several years. No doubt, the duo's venerable artistic propensities unravel in resplendent fashion on To Fly To Steal.

The quartet manifests a self-identity during these emotively imbued works, designed with ...

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Vincent Courtois - Sylvie Courvoisier - Ellery Eskelin: As Soon as Possible

by AAJ Italy Staff
July 23, 2009

Se si dovesse pensare ad una nuova Third Stream contemporanea As Soon as Possible, pur non costituendone un tassello imprescindibile, ne farebbe parte in pieno. In effetti il tentativo di coniugare la musica euro-colta con la creatività jazzistica sembra essere uno dei tratti distintivi di questo lavoro del tutto improvvisato. I due punti di partenza dell'incontro sono la voce di Eskelin, il cui fraseggio talvolta (nell'arcano solo della seconda traccia) è apparentabile addirittura a Liebman, e il vigore post-epressionista della ...

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Anker / Courvoisier / Mori: Alien Huddle

by Nic Jones
September 20, 2008

There is something palpably happening in this program of improvisation which lends it distinction. In this trio of reeds, piano, and electronics it's not by any means the latter that is what might be called the rogue element. Instead the coalescence of the music as well as its frenetic moments provide its considerable substance. There's no doubt that this is music happening in real time, but the means by which it reaches that status are veiled, enticing in their very ...

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Sylvie Courvoisier Trio: Abaton

by Raul d'Gama Rose
June 28, 2008

Sylvie Courvoisier Trio Abaton La Huit 2007

Of all absolutely modern chamber music artists, pianist Sylvie Courvoisier perhaps comes closest to imitating the pirouettes, the leaps, the twists and turns of dancers' bodies. When she plays, her hands cross over as if the bodies of dancers were intertwined. This makes the experience of the audio recording of Abaton (2003), her debut for ECM, extra special. She must surely have envisioned dancers making ...

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Sylvie Courvoisier: Lonelyville

by Kurt Gottschalk
December 9, 2007

Sylvie Courvoisier's work has come from a variety of angles over the years. She is a classically-trained composer with a strong ear for formal structure, an improviser with a strong sense of community and artistic relationships and an innovator whose work with preparing and altering the piano goes beyond the usual percussive effects to forge a new musicality on the instrument. All of those aspects of her work come together beautifully on Lonelyville, a fantastic and far-reaching suite written for ...

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Sylvie Courvoisier: Lonelyville

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 21, 2007

Le corde di un violino e di un violoncello, i tasti di un pianoforte, le pelli e i metalli di una batteria e i microchips di un personal computer sono i protagonisti di questo Lonelyville, ultima incisione di Sylvie Courvoisier, leader di un quintetto inedito dal punto di vista discografico. I precedenti lavori della pianista e compositrice elvetica si collocavano in una zona indefinita a cavallo tra improvvisazione jazzistica e musica accademica e contemporanea. Anche questo disco non sfugge alla ...