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Moutin Reunion Quartet: Red Moon
by AAJ Staff
The first thing that grabs you when you pick up Red Moon is the design of the case, a clever cardboard entity with a cool circular hole that can give you every phase of the moon when you rotate the disc inside. Spend a few seconds playing with that, and then get into the music. This group, born in 1999, recorded Power Tree a couple years back, and after changes in personnel and geography it's back with more solid, interactive ...
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by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
Avant-garde music is not my cup of tea: I usually find it dark and formless, and the more “out" it goes, the faster I turn it off. But when I heard the opening track here, a bass and drum derangement of “La Mer," I was struck by how playful it could be. Same thing for the next and title track, a driving funk/Latin mix, where pianist Baptiste Trotignon and saxophonist Rick Margitza join the party, contributing to the genial celebration. ...
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by Mark F. Turner
Jazz siblings such as Monty and Larry Alexander; Jimmy, Percy and Tootie Heath, and of course, George and Ira Gershwin share a unique bond of family and music kinship. It's even more unique to learn how a set of twins that grew up in an environment surrounded by jazz music, have earned a PHD in Physics and a Masters in Mathematics, have pursued their true fraternal love: Jazz music. With brothers Louis on acoustic bass and Francois on drums, their ...
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by Jim Santella
Identical twin brothers François and Louis Moutin know a lot about a lot of things. Theirs is a story that would give any parent room to mutter aloud with mixed emotions. While their mother played piano and guitar for the developing twins, their father taught them to enjoy his vast jazz record collection. François learned to play guitar and moved to bass at age 9. Louis learned to play piano and moved to drums at age 20. But they followed ...
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