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St. Germain: Refueling His Passion
by Nenad Georgievski
This article was translated from French. Every once in a while a new album will force you to reconfigure and re-evaluate all of the definitions and assumptions one has had about music in order to realize how vast and endless the possibilities of music can be. When it comes to producer and composer Ludovic ...
Vincent Peirani: Living Being
by Neri Pollastri
Musicista emergente d'oltralpe, eclettico con collaborazioni che vanno dal folk alla classica e con musicisti di ogni latitudine (si pensi a quella, ormai collaudata, con la cantante Youn Sun Nah), Peirani è qui alla testa del suo quintetto, composto da coetanei con i quali condivide l'esperienza della musica fin da giovanissimo. Il repertorio in ...
Marcel et Solange, Samuel Blaser: Tomate et parapluie
by Alberto Bazzurro
Una musica intelligente, arguta, fortemente intenzionale fino a risultare qua e là un po' calligrafica, è quanto ci arriva dal singolare (non fosse altro che per il nome) trio transalpino, nell'occasione (al suo secondo album) ospitante il trombone di Samuel Blaser (svizzero, lui), che dà rotondità e un colore in più alla tavolozza timbrica di base, ...
Benoit Delbecq 3: Ink
by John Sharpe
French pianist Benoit Delbecq came late to the piano trio, having spent 20 years on a variety of other projects. His previous foray into the terrain, The Sixth Jump (Songlines, 2010), featured bassist Jean Jacques Avenel (who sadly died in 2014) alongside Congolese drummer Emile Biayenda, who first toured with the pianist in the Central Africa ...
St. Germain: St. Germain
by Nenad Georgievski
There are really a handful of artists that are as eclectic as producer/DJ Ludovic Navarre and which have managed to enjoy major chart success. Navarre, better known under the moniker St. Germain, has created a seamless blend of jazz and deep house that captured the imagination of listeners worldwide with the release of the seminal album ...
Orchestre National de Jazz: Europa Berlin
by Eyal Hareuveni
When guitarist-composer Olivier Benoit was appointed in 2014 as the new artistic director of the prestigious French Orchestre National de Jazz (ONJ) some local neo-cons expressed their worries that this orchestra may lose its jazzy touch. Benoit composed before music for orchestras like the Lille-based Circum Grand Orchestra and the La Pieuvre ensemble, but is known ...
Alban Darche Hyprcub: Crooked House
by Alberto Bazzurro
Un po' megalomane, in tutta onestà, Alban Darche ci è sempre apparso, non fosse altro che per la magniloquenza con cui documenta la propria attività. Che oggi se ne esca con un album aperto da un brano intitolato “Albanology" (con buona pace del Carrisi di turno...), non ci può quindi sorprendere. Anche perché il disco in ...
Paris Jazz Diary 2015: Saxophonists Branford Marsalis, Azar Lawrence
by Patricia Myers
Paris Jazz Diary 2015: Saxophonists Branford Marsalis, Azar Lawrence New Morning, Sunside jazz clubs Paris, France July 21-22, 2015 Back-to-back jazz nights featured dynamic saxophonists Branford Marsalis and Azar Lawrence performing in two of the top music clubs of Paris, both leading quartets. Marsalis was on the big stage in the ...
Tom Harrell and TRIP
by Patricia Myers
Paris Jazz Diary 2015: Trumpeter Tom Harrell and TRIP Duc des Lombards Nous N'Irons Pas a New York Festival Paris, France July 17, 2015 The amazing and intriguing trumpeter Tom Harrell performed a program of nuanced creativity that stirred and expressed emotion, rather than displaying technique. His sparse solos were ...
Paris Jazz Diary: Pianists Kenny Barron, Harold Mabern, Bill Charlap
by Patricia Myers
Paris Jazz Diary 2015: Pianists Kenny Barron, Harold Mabern, Bill Charlap Duc des Lombards, Sunside-Sunset Jazz Clubs Paris, France July 3, July 4, July 14, 2015 New York City pianists Kenny Barron, Harold Mabern and Bill Charlap led trios in three separate concerts as part of a pair of annual summer-season ...
