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Francois Carrier - Entrance 3 (Ayler, 2011) ****
By Stef What fun good jazz can be! This is among the best, enjoyable and joyful post-bop music I've heard in a while. Canadian altoist François Carrier is accompanied by his usual companions Pierre Coté on bass and Michel Lambert on drums, with the great Bobo Stenson on piano for a live tour of Europe that ...
Steve Amirault: One Existence, Two Voices
by Pascal-Denis Lussier
Initially, I was disappointed to find out that pianist Steve Amirault was taking this new direction. Jazz singers have never really been my thing. Anyone that knows me knows I have a penchant for the lyric-less stuff--music that breaks all bounds, and language tends to impose extreme restrictions. Nonetheless, despite my own usual preferences, I'm always ...
Kathmandu
Label: FMR Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: White Summit; Dancing Light; Joyfulness And Playfulness; Prayer For Peace; Himalayan Beauty; Monkeys On The
Green; Impro For The Monks; Namaste; The Silence Of The Bells; Buddha's Homeplace; Candle In The Temple;
Amarawati Garden.
Francois Carrier: Within
by Budd Kopman
Within opens with François Carrier's alto saxophone played alone. From these very precise, centered, and yet soft-edged notes, the change to the listening space is immediate and complete. The line floats and twists, making feints towards melody, rhythmic regularity and harmony, only to turn away. A seemingly familiar phrase flies by without being developed, but rather ...
Francois Carrier / Michel Lambert: Kathmandu
by Budd Kopman
Alto saxophonist Francois Carrier is one of the most open musical souls around. When he went to Nepal in October of 2006 with his long-time musical partner, drummer Michel Lambert, to play in the fifth Jazzmandu jazz festival there, the depth of the connection he immediately felt with the Nepali people overwhelmed him. Kathmandu is the ...
Himalayan Beauty
Album: Kathmandu
By François Carrier
Label: FMR Records
Released: 2008
Duration: 05:04
