Julien Lourau

Julien Lourau: Quartet Saigon

Read "Quartet Saigon" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
December 29, 2009

Marseilles-based saxophonist Julien Lourau brought Quartet Saigon together in 2007, and both the group and album are named for the city where they made their debut performance: Saigon, Vietnam. Quartet Saigon is an inventive and intelligent album and shows that a classic four-piece with talent and imagination can still create original tunes. The album consists mainly of original compositions, with the exception of one standard, the closing “A House is Not a Home." The Burt Bacharach/Hal David ...

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Julien Lourau: The Rise

Read "The Rise" reviewed by Carlos Silva

by Carlos Silva
February 1, 2003

I first heard Julien Lourau on Abbey Lincoln's Who Used to Dance. He played this tenor pocket solo a la Coltrane that immediately connected me not to his roots, but to his possibilities as a saxophonist. He was about to achieve a voice of his own. Thereafter I found him on Henri Texier's Mad Nomad(s). Texier called his septet Sonjal, meaning “to think, to imagine, to muse, to dream," in Breton. So Lourau seemed a young promise of French jazz. ...

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Bojan Z & Julien Lourau Seek Crowd Funding For New Recording

Source: All About Jazz
June 2, 2014

After 25 years of lively collaboration and friendship, pianist/keyboardist Bojan Z and saxophonist Julien Lourau are going to record their duo! The duo was created at the Pannonica Club in Nantes, France, at the end of last century, in 1997 to be precise. Some of you still remember this perhaps. 17 years later, it seems relevant to us to fix these moments in a club as well – in this case at the Triton in Les Lilas, Paris – in ...
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