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Matthieu Chazarenc Evokes Bel Canto, Singing and Celebration
by Dean Nardi
The music has its source in Matthieu Chazarenc's natal southwest of France. The Paris-based drummer has offered his unique blend of jazz, classical and multi-rhythmic versatility on Canto III (Bonsai Music, 2024), linked to his first two albums as a leader--Canto II (Cristal Records, 2021) and Canto I (Jazz Family, 2018). “I like to be able ...
Pierre de Bethmann: Sharing a Musical Breakfast in Lyon
by Artur Moral
If interviewing a musical figure is usually a great experience, having a face-to-face conversation with one is a true privilege. Besides, it is April in Lyon, cherry trees in blossom... and the roofs of the capital of the French region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes shine under a splendid spring sun. Pierre de Bethmann, winner of the 2024 Victoire ...
Start "So Many Ways..."
Label: Bee Jazz
Released: 2008
Track listing: Quartz; To Bee or Not to Bee; Portrait of Cendrine; Picture in Black and White; Wanted; Where Is My Way?; Today Perhaps; Pharaon's Dance; U-Turn; Certainly Tomorrow; U-Turn (Version 2).
Christophe Wallemme: Start "So Many Ways..."
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Christophe Wallemme describes this effort as a “wink at the great standards of American jazz," a laudable objective but an affirmation that seems intended to confuse the listener. The explicit musical references on Start “So Many Ways..." point instead to Antonio Carlos Jobim and Miles Davis' Bitches Brew rather than “Body and Soul" or ...
Christophe Wallemme: Namaste
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
The achievement of Namaste--and it is a genuine achievement--is also the achievement of Miles Davis's In a Silent Way (Columbia, 1969): namely, providing room to breathe in a crowded room of musicians--soloists all, not a big band. (On Miles's subsequent Bitches Brew (Columbia, 1969), in contrast, a crowded room of musicians was happy to sound like ...
