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Fran

Play

By Fran

Label: 482 Music
Released: 2005
Track listing: Play; Le Marais; Open Conversation; Insomnie; Ballet; Ink; La Danse de Grand-Mie; Unloaded

Fran: Play

by Jerry D'Souza
January 22, 2005

If technique and imagination are the spirit of improvisation, then the François Carrier Trio has a brimful. Here are three musicians whose travelogue would make the most jaded witness sit up and take notice, attention and marvel at the way they scope the terrain and then mark it with their personal landmarks. What they construct is ...

Elenar

By Fran

Label: Effendi Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Chicane; Adnimals; Jardim; Elenar; The Variable Mind; Flies; The Little Movement; To You et nous; Stabilit

Francois Carrier Trio: Play

by AAJ Staff
December 1, 2004

It may not come as a complete surprise to listeners who have been following Canadian saxophonist François Carrier's work, but his new trio record has a very odd sense of coherence. It's odd for two reasons: one, because Play was compiled from a total of seven different appearances during the trio's 2000 Canadian tour, at locations ...

Fran: Elenar

by Jerry D'Souza
January 9, 2004

First, François Théberge: the man who likes to bring a twist to his tale. Second, the musicians: players who can vision the craft of the leader and augment it with their approach. Third, the instruments: brass and some unusual wind instruments that give the music a distinctive air. Fourth, the title: Elenar, a play on L ...

Indefinite Time

By Fran

Label: Effendi Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: I Dropped the Radio

Fran: Indefinite Time

by J. Robert Bragonier
November 13, 2003

Although unfamiliar to many Yankees, François Bourassa and his groups have been a staple on the Canadian jazz scene for the past 20 years. With a trio and now a quartet, Bourassa has toured from Moscow to Mexico, from Europe to East Asia. This is the group’s sixth album since 1986; its last, Live from 2001, ...

Fran: All' Alba

by AAJ Staff
October 4, 2003

Québécois saxophonist François Carrier cultivates the kind of focused intensity that belies a driving force but does not stray so far out that it loses track of the song form. All' Alba is his fourth studio release, following upon Compassion (Naxos, 2001) with the addition of pianist Uri Caine to his regular trio with bassist Pierre ...

Music of Konitz

By Fran

Label:
Released: 2002
Track listing: Chick Came Around; Lennie