Results for "Benjamin Moussay"

Promontoire

By Benjamin Moussay

Label: ECM Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: 127; Promontoire; Horses; Don't Look Down; Villefranque; L'oiseau d'Or; Chasseur de Plumes; Sotto Voce; The Fallen; Theme From Nana; Monte Perdido; Théa.

The French Scene - Part 3

by Ludovico Granvassu
August 4, 2020

As we continue our journey in today's French jazz scene, we look at how it has been influenced by the many musical traditions that enrich the French society, in particular those from North Africa and the Middle-East, courtesy of Yacine Boularès, Ibrahim Maalouf, Naïssam Jalal, Smadj and Sophie Alour with Mohamed Abozekry and Wassim Halal). To ...

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French Connections - The Jazzdor Experience

by Henning Bolte
January 25, 2018

Jazzdor is a French festival with two annual editions. The main part is held in the Strasbourg area (France) in November and the other one in Berlin (Germany) in June. Both editions present a considerable number of bilateral and multilateral collaborations; an essential part of the festival's philosophy and policy. The Strasbourg festival is ...

Louis Sclavis / Dominique Pifarély / Vincent Courtois: Asian Fields Variations

by John Kelman
May 21, 2017

Few artists on the ECM roster reinvent themselves as regularly--and with such consistent success--as Louis Sclavis. While it is true that the French clarinetist (and occasional soprano/baritone saxophonist) often draws (and re-draws) from a gradually expanding pool of musicians, there are few label mates who have released as many albums as Sclavis, where the lineups literally ...

Jazz in Church Festival 2015

by Adriana Carcu
May 5, 2015

Jazz in Church Festival Bucharest, Romania Lutheran Church April 16-19, 2015 The Jazz in Church Festival reaffirmed its call of unconventionality by bringing together artists of most diversified styles and orientations. A subtly assorted lineup consolidated the nascent tradition of open dialog and transgender interplay set forth three years ago. ...

Louis Sclavis Quartet: Silk and Salt Melodies

by Glenn Astarita
January 13, 2015

Iranian zarb (diagonally positioned drum)performer Kevyan Chemirani adds a worldly and exotic aspect to prominent French clarinetist, composer Louis Scalvis' band, featuring guitarist Gilles Coronado and keyboardist Benjamin Moussay who have performed with the leader on his Atlas Trio album, Sources (ECM Records, 2011). Sclavis' highly praised and disparate body of work for ECM Records is ...

Now's the time III: The best in contemporary jazz from France and [tax haven] Luxembourg

by John Ephland
December 10, 2014

Every. One. Of. These. Tracks. Is. A. Keeper. To be swept up in a fervor when listening to music (always an unexpected pleasure) and finding it next to impossible not to write about the experience--during as well as after--is the dream all music journalists crave and celebrate every time they find themselves returning to that zone. ...

Louis Sclavis Quartet: Silk and Salt Melodies

by John Kelman
September 30, 2014

After reinventing himself with a completely revamped ensemble on Sources (ECM, 2012), reed multi-instrumentalist Louis Sclavis expands the purviews and possibilities of his Atlas Trio by adding percussionist Keyvan Chemirani to the mix for Silk and Salt Melodies. Sclavis has, in his 33-year career as a leader--and since coming to ECM Records in 1991 with the ...

Beyond Mountains

By Benjamin Moussay

Label: Yolk Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: 01. Sentiment d’Elles ; 02. NYC ; 03. Under Snow ; 04. Fenêtre sur océan ; 05. Histoire de bulles d’O ; 06. Lettre à... ; 07. News from the Tibet ; 08. Ideal City ; 09. Abus de pouvoir ; 10. Aux oubliés ; 11. Chance!; 12. Jeu d’enfance.