Jazz Articles about Thomas Bramerie

About Thomas Bramerie

Album Review

Sacha Boutros: Sacha: Paris After Dark

Read "Sacha: Paris After Dark" reviewed by Pierre Giroux

by Pierre Giroux
December 19, 2025

With Sacha: Paris After Dark, vocalist Sacha Boutros, delivers an elegant and lovingly crafted tribute to a century of French and American song, drawing on the enduring traditions of both genres with the care of someone deeply familiar with their roots. Recorded with a seasoned Franco-American ensemble including trumpeter Stéphane Belmondo, pianist Franck Amsallem, guitarist Hugo Lippi, bassist Thomas Bramerie, and drummer Tony Rabeson, the album reminds us that timeless material, presented with sincerity and respect, can still sound fresh. ...

Album Review

Jean-Michel Pilc: New Dreams

by AAJ Italy Staff
August 22, 2007

A due anni dal precedente Live at Iridium, Jean-Michel Pilc esce con un nuovo lavoro in trio, accompagnato come allora dal bassista Thomas Bramerie e dal batterista Mark Mondesir, che in numerose tracce viene però sostituito da Ari Hoenig, batterista dei precedenti dischi di Pilc. Il CD riprende gran parte delle ispirazioni della musica del pianista francese - intensità dinamica, percussionismo monkiano, varietà e vivacità improvvisativa - ma vi agiunge una vena lirico-intimista che Pilc aveva fin qui manifestato soprattutto ...

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Extended Analysis

Sketch

by Samuel Chell
August 27, 2004

Not only did David Schnitter have the longest tenure of any tenor saxophonist in Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers but he was always present on the most exciting and memorable of Bu's sets that I was privileged to catch. His return to music and recording after a sabbatical of over 20 years is at once cheering and disturbing. There may have been more schooled and disciplined players preceding and succeeding Schnitter, not to mention younger, more marketable icons that attracted record ...