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Yannick Rieu:
by Mark F. Turner
The thrust of many recent jazz recordings has been to play fast and loud, pushing the limits of the music. But creativity also runs in the slower lanes, as on “I" Is Memory . Saxophonist Yannick Rieu was noted by Downbeat magazine in 1998 as one of the most promising new saxophonists, along with Branford Marsalis ...
Steve Amirault: Breath
by John Kelman
Gradually, and with little fanfare, the Canadian Effendi label has been amassing a substantial catalogue of contemporary jazz with special focus on Montreal's vibrant scene. That's not to suggest that all its artists are born and bred Montrealers. Pianist John Roney--heard recently on saxophonist Remi Bolduc's Cote D'écoute (Effendi, 2005)--originally comes from Toronto, while saxophonist Christine ...
Remi Bolduc: Cote d
by Michael McCaw
Inspired by an off-hand comment comes Cote d'écoute, a recording of Radio Canada TV theme songs that is full-bodied and mature, dispensing with the shtick that can hamper such material. It turns out that Remi Bolduc was looking for his own folk music when the recommendation came, and it provided a link to his childhood and ...
Julie Lamontagne Trio: Facing The Truth
by Michael P. Gladstone
This debut recording from French Canadian pianist Julie Lamontagne offers a good opportunity to hear a fresh trio at work. Lamontange is a former student of French pianist Lorraine Desmarais; more recently she studied in New York with Garry Dial and Fred Hersch. Among her many credits, she has worked with the popular Montreal big band ...
Provost/LaChapelle/Brochu: Live Au Va-Et-Vient
by Michael P. Gladstone
Canadian guitarist Sylvain Provost appears alongside electric bassist Norman Lachapelle and drummer Paul Brochu on this April 2004 live recording from Montreal's Le Va-Et-Vient club. Provost's previous album from 2001, also in a trio setting, included Lachapelle. Provost's style is essentially mainstream and his largest influence appears to be Pat Metheny, with the same ...
Julie Lamontagne Trio: Facing the Truth
by John Kelman
Gary Burton isn't the only one to discover vital new talent, as he did on Next Generation (Concord, 2005). Over the past few years, the Canadian Effendi Records label has introduced a surprising number of outstanding artists to the Canadian jazz scene. Their Effendi Jazz Lab performance at the '04 Ottawa International Jazz Festival demonstrated just ...
Remi Bolduc: Cote D'Ecoute
by John Kelman
Source material can, on the surface, come from the strangest of places. In addition to seemingly endless reworkings of the Great American Songbook, contemporary jazzers are now looking farther afield, with artists like the Bad Plus bringing an improvisational approach to material by groups like Blondie and Black Sabbath. Brad Mehldau has been mining the repertoire ...
Jean-Christophe Beney: Polychromy
by Michael P. Gladstone
Following up his 1998 debut album, Tenor Joke, with a 2002 release, Cassiopee, French tenor saxophonist Jean-Christophe Beney now provides a new effort on the Canadian Effendi label. Beney's formidable bebop styling is notable for its fluency and attention to lyricism. Unlike many other “new" players, his playing doesn't employ jagged or fragmentary lines ...
Michel Donato: Et Ses Amis Europ
by Michael P. Gladstone
French-Canadian bassist Michel Donato has been on the jazz scene since the 1960s, with only a handful of albums under his own name. He has the respect of the Canadian musicians for his musicianship and influence in bringing Monk, Mingus, Miles Davis, and Carmen McRae to the Montreal jazz community. This album finds Donato ...
