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The Sixth Jump
Label: Songlines Recordings
Released: 2011
Track listing:
01. Ando; 02. Poursuite/Drum Page (Biayenda/Arguelles/Delbecq); 03. Letter to Gyorgy L.; 04. Barragan; 05. Piano Page (Biayenda/Arguelles/Delbecq); 06. Aka;
07. Le meme jour; 08. Yompa; 09. Le sixieme saut; 10. Pointe de la courte dune/Bass Page (Avenel/Arguelles/Delbecq).
Tutte le composizioni sono di Benoit Delbecq tranne quelle indicate.
Benoit Delbecq / Francois Houle: Because She Hoped
by Glenn Astarita
The superior recording quality, tinged with reverb and a capacious aesthetic, serves as a third instrument on this studio recording by French pianist Benoit Delbecq and Canadian clarinetist Francois Houle. Both artists occupy that progressive, cutting-edge space within modern jazz contexts. With their third duo outing, the musicians use extended techniques in an intimate setting. Here, ...
Benoit Delbecq Trio: The Sixth Jump
by AAJ Italy Staff
Vi è la Madre Africa. “Ando," per esempio, si sviluppa attorno ad un ritmo tribale che rimanda a villaggi sperduti e tramonti rosso fuoco. Ma anche in altri brani risuonano echi di strumenti etnici sia percussivi (presenti nel armamentario di Emile Biayenda) sia cordofoni (il contrabbasso di Jean-Jacques Avenel suona talvolta come la kora proveniente dal ...
Guelph Jazz Festival: Guelph, Canada, September 7-11, 2011
by Sara Villa
Guelph Jazz Festival, Colloquium & Nuit Blanche Guelph, Canada September 7-11, 2011 As Prez used to say, if you are a good improviser you are able to tell a soulful story. What happens, then, when some of the most experimental improvisers from Canada, Australia, Norway, and England (among the others) are involved in ...
Benoit Delbecq: The Sixth Jump / Circles and Calligrams
by Jerry D'Souza
Pianist Benoît Delbecq makes his debut trio recording with The Sixth Jump, released simultaneously with Circles and Calligrams, which Delbecq describes in a solo outing. The first disc amplifies his skills as an empathic leader whose inventive thematic explorations are woven in spontaneous interaction with his mates. The second lets him explore the dynamics of the ...
2010: The Year in Jazz
by Ken Franckling
The jazz scene in 2010 was marked by a bit of cultural thaw between the U.S. and Cuba, royal honors for Marian McPartland that led honors galore for living jazz musicians, and significant acknowledgments for late jazz greats across North America. Efforts continued to expand jazz into new realms--or to hold on during the aftershocks of ...
Spiritual Lover
Label: Clean Feed Records
Released: 2010
Track listing:
01. Spiritual Lover; 02. Valse; 03. Cajun Christmas; 04. Ando; 05. Billy No Mates; 06. Guacamole; 07. La Rêve
Eveillé; 08. 50808; 09. Like Surman; 10. Here's That Rainy Day.
Benoit Delbecq Awarded Prestigious Grand Prix de l'Académie Charles Cros for 2010 Songlines Releases Circles and Calligrams and The Sixth Jump
"Plenty of forward-thinking jazz pianists have been painted with a modern-classical brush, but few have approached improvisation armed with the manual vocabularies demanded by Cage, Ligeti and the like with the same diligence and flair as Parisian keyboardist Delbecq." —Time Out New York Acclaimed Paris-based pianist Benoît Delbecq has been awarded the Grand Prix de l'Académie ...
John Hébert: Spiritual Lover
by AAJ Italy Staff
Dopo la piacevole sorpresa di Byzantine Monkey - uno dei dischi che più ci aveva colpito lo scorso anno - il contrabbassista John Hébert accresce la propria discografia da leader con questo nuovo Spiritual Lover, per la portoghese Clean Feed. Rispetto al precedente lavoro, in cui Hébert aveva costruito un gioco di gruppo denso e stratificato, ...
John Hebert: Spiritual Lover
by Stuart Broomer
John Hébert's skills as a bassist have been amply apparent for several years, in projects that have called on rock-solid tone, time and pitch to imaginative free improvisation. But Byzantine Monkey (Clean Feed, 2009) demonstrated his substantial talents as a composer and bandleader, fronting a quintet/sextet dense in reeds and percussion. On Spiritual Lover he's taken ...
