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Jean-Luc Petit

Double Basse: This Is Not Art

by John Sharpe
November 30, 2015

Although the group moniker might suggest two bull fiddles, in fact it describes the French pairing of bassist Benjamin Duboc and contrabass clarinetist Jean-Luc Petit. No strangers to each other (Petit appears on the bassist's leadership debut under his own name on Primare Cantus (Ayler, 2011)), they nonetheless pile up the challenges for themselves: no charts; ...

Matière des Souffles

By Jean-Luc Petit

Label: Improvised Beings
Released: 2014
Track listing: Abrasives Incursions; Vibratoires; Le Noir Et Le Goudron; La Montagne Se Consume; Autre Cime, Autre Gisement.

Jean-Luc Petit: Matière des Souffles

by Eyal Hareuveni
December 22, 2014

French reed player Jean-Luc Petit mastered his art through extensive, mostly free improvised, solo work with actor and poet Daniel Crumb (including the staging of Charles Bukowski poems) and various duets with double bassist Benjamin Duboc, percussionist Didier Lasserre and sax players Daunik Lazro and Sylvain Guérineau among many other forward-thinking local improvisers.