Olivier Robin

Olivier Robin / Sebastien Jarrousse Quintet: Dream Time

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
January 26, 2008

Since Van Halen II (1979), if not before, the sophomore curse has beset bands' second albums. After a lifetime of collecting material for the first record, the short calendar for the follow-up imposes a harsh discipline that is not always friendly to the artist. Well, that might have been Van Halen's excuse, anyway; in jazz, the same logic doesn't necessarily apply.

This sophomore effort from the quintet led by drummer Olivier Robin and saxophonist Sébastien Jarrousse ...