Results for "Effendi Records"

Album

L’Échelle du Temps

By Yves Leveille

Label: Effendi Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: L’Échelle du Temps; Couleur Grenade; Missive; Encodage 2.0; Sans Retour; Une Journée Comme ça; Embrasure; Le Réservoir.

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JazzLab Orchestra: Loguslabusmuzikus

by Angelo Leonardi
August 5, 2022

Jazzlab Orchestra è un medio organico costituito da tre ance e due ottoni in varie combinazioni, più una sezione ritmica con pianoforte. Opera da quasi due decenni nel Quebec (Canada), ha pubblicato sette album, collaborato con jazzmen statunitensi di primo piano (Ted Nash, Seamus Blake, Donny McCaslin, Rufus Reid) e dato svariati concerti in Nord America ...

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Yves Léveillé: L’Échelle du Temps

by Troy Dostert
April 12, 2022

Although he has yet to achieve substantial acclaim beyond his native Canada, Montreal-based pianist Yves Léveillé has made an accomplished series of albums going back to 1999 with Signal Commun, the first of several releases on Effendi Records. Léveillé's music possesses a strong jazz vocabulary, but the pianist also has an abiding classical temperament. A disc ...

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JazzLab Orchestra: Loguslabusmuzikus

by Chris M. Slawecki
April 5, 2022

Jazzlab Orchestra has been a fixture on the jazz scene in Canada for nearly two decades. Their unique heavy sound features six brass and reed players with a relatively standard piano, bass and drum rhythm section, and they've captured that sound on several standalone recordings and presented it on more than 300 concert stages across North ...

Album

L'Impact du Silence

By Francois Bourassa

Label: Effendi Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Small Head; Blues Masqué; Triadique; Interlude Y; Gaspard; Interlude X; Remous Part 1; Interlude Z; Andante; Arch 65; La Buissonne; KVQ; Musique pour Film; Epilogue.

Album

Loguslabusmuzikus

By JazzLab Orchestra

Label: Effendi Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: La Grande Sauve Majeure; Humor de la Seconda Noche…; Pum la Suite; Bluesy del Lunedi; Criucm; Le Grain Blanc Dans les Voiles; Casse-pattes/case-guele/case-tete; Lunes & Marees; Compte-rendu II.

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Jazzlab Orchestra: Loguslabusmuzikus

by Jack Bowers
November 21, 2021

The Jazzlab Orchestra, formed in 2004 and based in Montreal, Canada, lies somewhere short of orchestra-size. It's actually an octet—but don't let that deter you; the unison passages are generally robust and pleasing. Jazzlab does play jazz of a sort, music that may best be described as contemporary cerebral. In other words, this is not akin ...

Musician

Alain Bédard

Alain Bédard began his professional career in the 1980s, when he integrates naturaly some various Quebec formations of the time. His participation in various major events around the world, today it provides a fascinating experience. With a passage in the Word Beat with DADJE (Senegal-Quebec group), dancing alongside Martinique dancer Josianne Antourel, the classic with Marc Denis at the University of Quebec in Montreal and violinist Martin Foster (member of the UQAM Chamber Music Orchestra) and jazz with a variety of groups in Quebec and international artists including; Jazzlab Orchestra, André Leroux, François Bourassa, Frank Lozano, Pierre Tanguay, Michel Côté, Donny McCaslin, Stéphane Belmondo, Julien Loureau, Ted Nash, Pascal Shumacher, etc Alain Bédard continues an interesting career with his own jazz quartet AUGUSTE training, he walks for almost 20 years on all continents. After giving hundreds of concerts and edited 5 albums whose CD “Auguste” (1997), “Sphere Reflection” (2006), “Bluesy Lunedi” (2008) nominated for an ADISQ and JUNO Award for Best Album of 2010 “Homos Pugnax” (2011) and “Circum Continuum” (2016)

Musician

JazzLab Orchestra

Active since: 2004

The Jazzlab Orchestra, based in Montreal, defines itself as a specific group, a true institution in the world of Canadian jazz since 2004. The group explores musical writing in many styles, each time supported by stunning composers and musicians. Always keen on originality, always attached to gravitating a core of astonishing artists, it elaborates with inspiration and audacity each project since its creation. Practically the only group of its kind in Canada, he has released 7 albums and given more of 300 concerts since his creation, performing on the best stages of major jazz festivals and several prestigious venues in North America and Europe, including: The Jazz at the Lincoln Center (NY), the New Morning, the Café de la Danse (Paris), the Casa del Jazz (Rome), the Grande Teatro (Sicily), the Jazz Station (Brussels) and the Budapest Music Center (Budapest), etc.

Usually made up of 8 leaders of Quebec jazz, this "Large Format " ensemble gave also 39 special concerts with many international artists like: Ted Nash, Seamus Blake (sax), Stephane Belmondo (trp), Chinese singer Zhao Ke, Don Thompson (vib), Mark Feldman (vl) and Donny MacCaslin (sax) which were greatly received by many audiences and professionals

Video

Lune de miel

Featuring the music of Mireille Boily
Duration: 1:07
October 28, 2021

Jazz En Rafale Live presents Montreal-based and internationally acclaimed vocalist Mireille Boily with Jean-Michel Pilc (piano), Érik Hove (saxophone), Rémi-Jean Leblanc (bass) and Louis-Vincent Hamel (drums) from Les Studios Piccolo. Purchase tickets to the on demand version here. Jazz En Rafale runs from October 9 to December 18, so check here for upcoming shows.