Results for "Orchestre National de Jazz"

Jazzdor Strasbourg 2019

by Henning Bolte
March 3, 2020

Jazzdor Strasbourg 2019 Fosse des Treize and other venues November 10-13, 2019 Jazzdor is a unique double-sided European jazz festival offering a 15-day November edition in Strasbourg and environs including German town Offenburg on the opposite side of the Rhine river, and it also presents a June edition in Berlin. ...

Orchestre National de Jazz

Europa Berlin

By Orchestre National de Jazz

Label: Onjazz Records
Released: 2015
Track listing: L'effacement des traces (Intro); L'effacement des traces; Métonymie (Intro); Métonymie; Révolution (Intro, Pt. 1); Révolution (Intro, Pt. 2); Révolution; Réécriture; Oblitération; 22m 5st; Persistance de l'oubli (Intro); Persistance de l'oubli, Pt. 1; Persistance de l'oubli, Pt. 2; Détournement.

Orchestre National de Jazz: Europa Berlin

by Eyal Hareuveni
September 19, 2015

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 ...

Now's the time III: The best in contemporary jazz from France and [tax haven] Luxembourg

by John Ephland
December 10, 2014

Every. One. Of. These. Tracks. Is. A. Keeper. To be swept up in a fervor when listening to music (always an unexpected pleasure) and finding it next to impossible not to write about the experience--during as well as after--is the dream all music journalists crave and celebrate every time they find themselves returning to that zone. ...

Orchestre National de Jazz: Piazzolla!

By Orchestre National de Jazz

Label: Jazz Village
Released: 2013
Track listing: Intro: El día que me quieras; Chiguilín de Bachín / Balada para un loco; Libertango; El día que me quieras / Oblivion; Tres minutos con la realidad; Flores negras; Mi refugio; Adiós Nonino; Soledad / Vuelvo al sur; Pantaleón improvisación; Sunny's Game.

Matthieu Metzger: SelfCooking

by Eyal Hareuveni
April 24, 2013

SelfCooking offers a glimpse into the busy mind of a restless musician, French saxophonist Matthieu Metzger. Deep thoughts about weird compositions that have lurked in his memory, accidental explorations while playing with the extended family of saxophones and the joyful cooking of sonic textures, spiced with electronic treatments, some are his own design of real time ...

Orchestre National de Jazz: Piazzolla!

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
February 28, 2013

The Argentinian composer, bandoneón player and tango revolutionary Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992) was no stranger to jazz. As a music student in Paris in the mid-1950s, he was inspired by the joyous improvisation he witnessed in the effervescent Left Bank jazz scene. He would go on to collaborate with baritone saxophonist Gerry Mulligan (Summit/Reunion Cumbre, Erre, 1974) ...

Piazzolla!

By Orchestre National de Jazz

Label: Not On Label
Released: 2012

Orchestre National de Jazz: Shut Up And Dance

By Orchestre National de Jazz

Label: Bee Jazz
Released: 2011