Results for "Antonin Rayon"

Antonin Rayon

Sylvaine Hélary: Glowing Life

by Henning Bolte
March 8, 2021

Is flute an odd one out in the present jazz field? Not really and not at all in France. France not only has Michel Edelin in the older generation, it has still more flautists in the younger generation that are also bandleaders in their own right, for example Magic Malik, Eve Risser, Naïssam Jalal and, of ...

Glowing Life

By Sylvaine Hélary

Label: Ayler Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Aprés la pluie; Thinking to Dance; Glowing Life; Thinking of Solitude; Introduction to Beginning; Where it Begins.

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Spring Roll: Episodes

by John Sharpe
August 20, 2019

French flautist Sylvaine Hélary's Spring Roll follow up their ambitious debut Printemps (Ayler, 2015) with another adventurous outing on Episodes. While the first disc incorporated words and voices, the twist this time is that Hélary commissioned works from three of New York City's finest composer-improvisers, pianists Matt Mitchell and Kris Davis, and saxophonist Dan Blake, to ...

Dominique Pifarély Quartet: Tracé Provisoire

by Neri Pollastri
April 3, 2017

Dopo lo splendido lavoro in solo Time Before and Time After, Dominique Pifarély torna alla testa di un quartetto che vede schierati due suoi storici collaboratori quali sono Bruno Chevillon e François Merville accanto al pianista Antonin Rayon. La cifra è quella che da sempre caratterizza il violinista francese: un camerismo contemporaneo piuttosto astratto, marcatamente ritmico ...

Dominique Pifarély Quartet: Tracé Provisoire

by Mark Sullivan
August 10, 2016

French violinist Dominique Pifarély--last heard solo on Time Before And Time After (ECM, 2015)--leads a quartet into that uncharted territory between improvisation and composition. The quartet was founded in the spring of 2014, but the players had many associations before that. Pifarély and double bassist Bruno Chevillon have recorded together with clarinetist Louis Sclavis on Chine ...