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Clovis Nicolas

After having established himself as a first-call bass player on the European scene (performances with Dee Dee Bridgewater, Brad Mehldau, Michel Legrand,..), jazz bassist Clovis Nicolas moved from France to New York in 2002. Since then, he has shared the stage in numerous venues (Jazz Standard, Smalls Jazz Club, Blue Note, 55 Bar, Kennedy Center, Smoke, Jazz Gallery, Birdland, Alice Tully Hall, Dizzy’s Club...) with some of today's most prominent jazz musicians, such as Jeremy Pelt, Grant Stewart, Harry Allen, Branford Marsalis, Curtis Fuller, Benny Powell, James Williams, Peter Bernstein, Joe Magnarelli, Marcus Gilmore, Sachal Vasandani, Eric Alexander, Carl Allen, Greg Hutchinson, and Dan Nimmer

Ludovico Granvassu's Garden of Jazzy Delights 2023

by Ludovico Granvassu
January 3, 2024

If it is true that, like The Police once put it, “when the world is going down you make the best of what's still around," then throughout 2023 jazz fans were better off than most other social groups. In a year in which everyday news brought ever more inconceivable disappointments, jazz musicians, labels, festivals and venues ...

Listen!

By Yvonnick Prene

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Dig; Mystic Minor; The Dip; Boosted; Just Have Faith; Seven Steps To Heaven (featuring Jeremy Pelt); She's Funny That Way; How Am I To Know.

The Contrapuntist

By Clovis Nicolas

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Parallels To Andante Moderato; Etude on Scherzo I; Shadow of Adagio; Sketch of Scherzo II; Tableau of Andante Sostenuto; Le Miroir: Andante Moderato; Le Miroir: Scherzo I; Le Miroir: Adagio; Le Miroir: Scherzo II; Le Miroir: Andante Sostenuto.

Brandee Younger, Clovis Nicolas, Guillaume Vierset, Mariusz Sobanski & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
May 13, 2023

Strings, strings and more strings in this episode... from those of Brandee Younger's and Dorothy Ashby's harps, to those of the Ulysses String Quartet; from those of the guitars of Marc Ribot, Mariusz Sobanski and Guillaume Vierset, to those of the basses of Meshell Ndegeocello and Clovis Nicolas.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo ...

Kids' Time

By Dmitry Baevsky

Label: Fresh Sound New Talent
Released: 2022
Track listing: Mr H.; Imintagante; Kids' Time; Minor Delay; Time Flies; Deep In A Dream; Morningside Waltz; Rollin'; MTA; Soy Califa; The End; Don't Blame Me.

Dmitry Baevsky: Kids' Time

by David A. Orthmann
December 29, 2022

Dmitry Baevsky is a jazzman in his middle years, a period when many players consolidate youthful influences and put their stamp on the rarefied practices of the mid- to-late 20th century. The alto saxophonist has recorded for several labels, and travels widely as a leader and sideman; to his credit, he continues to give the impression ...

Freedom Suite Ensuite

By Clovis Nicolas

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: The 5:30PM Dive Bar Rendezvous; Freedom Suite; Grant S. ; Nichols and Nicolas; You Or Me?; Dark and Stormy; Fine and Dandy; Speak a Gentle Word; Little Girl Blue.

Autoportrait

By Clovis Nicolas

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: After Bach; Hot House; Body and Soul; Thon's Tea; Free; Another Rendezvous; Jubilate Deo; Four Steps; Solitude; Line Up; Chloe; Lady Bass; Everything Happens To Me.

Costanza Alegiani, Charlie Hunter, Christian McBride, Nicole Johänntgen & Other New Releases

by Ludovico Granvassu
July 3, 2021

In the two weeks since our last new releases special, so much great music came to our attention that today we have one of those shows that some define as “all killer, no filler..." except that I don't like to think of music as “killing," but you catch my drift. A special focus on ...