Home » Jazz Articles » Benjamin Duboc
Jazz Articles about Benjamin Duboc
About Benjamin Duboc
Instrument: Bass, acoustic
Related Articles | Concerts | Albums | Photos | Similar ToDaunik Lazro, Benjamin Duboc, Mathieu Bec: Standards Combustion
by Mark Corroto
The French trio of saxophonist Daunik Lazro, bassist Benjamin Duboc, and drummer Mathieu Bec has released a collection of music with the fitting title Standards Combustion. Their covers of two compositions each by John Coltrane and Albert Ayler, and one each by Steve Lacy and Wayne Shorter do not so much burn down these nuggets as utilize them as a kind of touch-paper. Sometimes listeners in the 21st century forget the chronology of music's development. This is especially ...
read morePatricia Bosshard / Onceim - CoÔ: Sillons - Reflets
by John Eyles
Aside from the music, the best thing about this album is that its release signals the Potlatch label is alive and well. (Having released four CDs in 2016 and three in 2017, Potlatch released none in 2018, one in 2019, none in 2020.) In addition to this album, 2021 sees the release of a second, a duo album by Pascal Battus and Michel Doneda. Good news. The music itself comprises two 2018 compositions--"Sillons" and “Reflets"--by violinist ...
read moreDouble Basse: This Is Not Art
by John Sharpe
Although the group moniker might suggest two bull fiddles, in fact it describes the French pairing of bassist Benjamin Duboc and contrabass clarinetist Jean-Luc Petit. No strangers to each other (Petit appears on the bassist's leadership debut under his own name on Primare Cantus (Ayler, 2011)), they nonetheless pile up the challenges for themselves: no charts; restricted palette; exposed situation; and difficult instrumentation, especially the unwieldy woodwind. The two lengthy spontaneous inventions were recorded in the pre-Romanesque chapel of Saint ...
read moreBenjamin Duboc: St. James Infirmary
by Eyal Hareuveni
French double bassist Benjamin Duboc belongs to the elite of the European free improvisation scene. He is a musician with a unique command of the bull fiddle, employing a wide array of inventive and original extended techniques. But he is also an improviser that charges each of his solo performances with captivating emotional power. His latest solo album was recorded in the church building Eglise Saint- Martin in Bignac in the western part of France in ...
read moreThe Fish: Moon Fish
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il trio francese The Fish assembla personalità molto eccentriche del panorama improvvisativo d'oltralpe per formazione personale ed eterogeneità di interessi, due delle quali, il contraltista Jean-Luc Guionnet ed il contrabbassista Benjamin Duboc, suonano insieme nel quintetto denominato Hubbub. The Fish aveva già dato prova della sua travolgente carica energetica nel doppio Live at Olimpic Cafè & Jazz a Mulhouse. Proprio il contrabbasso di Duboc risulta l'unico punto di riferimento, seppur mobile, di questo Moon Fish (disco anch'esso registrato dal vivo) ...
read moreBenjamin Duboc: Primare Cantus
by Eyal Hareuveni
French double bassist Benjamin Duboc is one of the busiest musicians in the left-of-center experimental scene of musicians today in Europe. This prolific musician plays regularly with Japanese trumpet player Itaru Oki (who is based in France), in duo and with the NUTS quintet, and with many of the elite of French improvisers, including pianist Jobic Le Masson's trio Free Unfold, or in sax trios with saxophonists Daniel Erdmann, Sylvain Guérineau, Jean-Luc Guionnet or Abdelhaï Bennani. The three-disc Primare Cantus ...
read more
Giveaway
Days remaining: 6
