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Sylvain Provost/Norman Lachapelle: Ni Un Ni Deux

Read "Ni Un Ni Deux" reviewed by Steve Armour

by Steve Armour
April 1, 2001

Sonority, not tradition, centers the music on Ni Un Ni Deux. The rich blend of Norman Lachapelle's upright bass with Sylvain Provost's acoustic guitar (plus percussion help from Pierre Cormier) anchors the duo as they stretch across musical boundaries. It makes for great sounding music, if uneven jazz. The pair sounds happy, mostly. The vibe is ...

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Christine Jensen: Collage

by Steve Armour
April 1, 2001

Christine Jensen starts Collage with a blues in fancy wrapping: a funky Rhodes ostinato, a displaced, sliding tonal center, and a stutter-step orchestration. This rich writing asks and gets the most from Jensen's musicians on this, her debut recording. Drummer Karl Jannuska and pianist Brad Turner chat it up throughout the album. Their open phrasing on ...

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Daniel Thouin: Organique

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by Steve Armour
March 1, 2001

Hemingway said good writing comes from what you leave out, a lesson pianist Daniel Thouin and his Montreal-based partners have applied to music on their new release, Organique (I’m guessing French for “organic"). They leave out the bass on the opener, the splang-splang-a-lang cymbal pattern just about everywhere else, any statement of time in one of ...

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Le Chapeau De Ma Soeur

By Gilles Bernard

Label: Effendi Records
Released: 2000

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Worldwide Programme 1

By Gilles Peterson

Label: Effendi Records
Released: 2000

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Little Zab

By Yannick Rieu

Label: Effendi Records
Released: 1999
Track listing: Omiya II; Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most; It's Only A Paper Moon; My One And Only Love; Omiya I; L; Voir Un Ami Pleurer; Smile; Smoke Gets In Your Eyes; 65 Bis; Little Zab

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Yannick Rieu: Little Zab

by AAJ Staff
May 1, 2000

Yannick Rieu is a gifted young tenor saxophonist from north of the border, who has just released this very nice record on the new Effendi label, entitled Little Zab. This, his fourth CD as a leader, spotlights Rieu in different configurations featuring a set of standards and originals. Most of the cuts are quiet ballads that ...

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