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Article: Multiple Reviews

Benoit Delbecq: The Sixth Jump / Circles and Calligrams

by Jerry D'Souza
January 16, 2011

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 ...

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Article: Year in Review

2010: The Year in Jazz

by Ken Franckling
January 8, 2011

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 ...

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Spiritual Lover

By Benoit Delbecq

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.

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News: Award / Grant

Benoit Delbecq Awarded Prestigious Grand Prix de l'Académie Charles Cros for 2010 Songlines Releases Circles and Calligrams and The Sixth Jump

November 30, 2010

"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 ...

Article: Album Review

John Hébert: Spiritual Lover

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 24, 2010

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, ...

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Article: Album Review

John Hebert: Spiritual Lover

Read "Spiritual Lover" reviewed by Stuart Broomer

by Stuart Broomer
June 4, 2010

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 ...

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Where Is Pannonica?

By Benoit Delbecq

Label: Songlines Recordings
Released: 2009
Track listing: 01. Portrait of Giorgio Thelos; 02. Task Sharing; 03. Divide Comedy; 04. Ice Storm; 05. Le Meme Jour; 06. Mu-Turn; 07. Chander Logic; 08. Pyramides; 09. Water's Edge Part I; 10. Water's Edge Part II; 11. Trespassing; 12. Uhren; 13. Pyramides.

Article: Album Review

Andy Milne - Benoit Delbecq: Where Is Pannonica?

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 28, 2009

Where is Pannonica? è nato dall'incontro tra due voci ben accreditate nel panorama del jazz internazionale: se Milne è noto per la sua collaborazione con Steve Coleman, Dulbecq è un pianista parigino che ha collezionato importanti partnership con vari jazzisti, ma noto anche per un'attitudine sperimentale che si configura in un'ideale estetica a metà strada tra ...

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Article: Album Review

Andy Milne / Benoit Delbecq: Where is Pannonica?

Read "Where is Pannonica?" reviewed by George Kanzler

by George Kanzler
July 12, 2009

Occasioned by a commission from Chamber Music America's French-America Jazz Exchange and realized during a three-week composing/recording residency at the Banff Centre in Canada in 2008, this is a fascinating project, pushing the boundaries of the piano duo format. Using Steinway D grands that were often--mostly in Benoit Delbecq's case--altered with prepared devices (objects on strings) ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Andy Milne & Benoit Delbecq: Where Is Pannonica?

by Martin Gladu
July 2, 2009

Andy Milne & Benoit Delbecq Where Is Pannonica? Songlines Recordings 2009 Welcome to the third dimension. The product of their 2008 winter residency at the Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada, Where Is Pannonica? seals the longstanding, twinlike affinity between pianists Andy Milne and Benoit Delbecq in one truly ...