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Amalthea
Label: Pyroclastic Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: La Chimère aux yeux verts; Queen of Spades; King of Hearts; Simone; At Risk; Knots
and Dander; Circumbent; Le Pavot Rouge.
Sylvie Courvoisier: Amalthea
by Jack Kenny
This quartet shares its instrumentation with the Modern Jazz Quartet: piano, vibraphone, double bass and drums. Yet listening closely to the two groups reveals how far jazz has travelled between 1950 and now. Like John Lewis, Sylvie Courvoisier has an allegiance to European art music; where the MJQ cultivated poised, contrapuntal elegance, Amalthea favours abrupt changes ...

