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Darius Jones Quartet, Emilie Lesbros: Le bébé de Brigitte (Lost in Translation)

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Darius Jones Quartet, Emilie Lesbros: Le bébé de Brigitte (Lost in Translation)
La Brigitte del titolo è Brigitte Fontaine, artista "totale" (cantante, poetessa e altro ancora) francese, oggi settantaseienne, che fra le tante esternazioni del suo talento nel 1970 registrò un album, Comme à la radio, con l'Art Ensemble Of Chicago. A lei il trentasettenne altoista Darius Jones, nativo della Virginia, dedica questo suo nuovo lavoro, per il quale, non a caso, convoca un'altra cantattrice francese, Emilie Lesbros, e con lei (fra l'altro coautrice, testi—quasi ovunque in francese—e musiche, di tutto il materiale dell'opera) e il suo quartetto (per metà identico a Snakeoil di Tim Berne) confeziona un album senz'altro degno di nota.

A Berne, se vogliamo, Jones si ricollega per la densità, la tensione della musica e del suo stesso fraseggio strumentale, per certe improvvise lacerazioni (tipo in "I Can't Keep From Weeping"), anche se indiscutibilmente (e del resto forse fisiologicamente) senza la stessa carica identitaria. La voce di Emilie Lesbros vi gioca nello specifico un ruolo decisivo, districandosi fra cantato e parlato (o recitativo) con identica destrezza.

Un lavoro a cui dedicare la giusta attenzione.

Track Listing

Two Worlds, One Soul; Chanteuse in Blue; Universal Translator; Beneath the Skin (we are already one); I Can't Keep From Weeping; Quand vient la nuit.

Personnel

Darius Jones
saxophone, alto

Darius Jones: sax alto; Matt Mitchell: pianoforte, piano elettrico; Sean Conly: contrabbasso; Ches Smith: batteria, percussioni; Emilie Lesbros: voce; in “Quand vient la nuit” Lebros anche pianoforte e Pascal Niggenkemper: contrabbasso.

Album information

Title: Le bébé de Brigitte (Lost in Translation) | Year Released: 2015 | Record Label: AUM Fidelity

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