Results for "Sylvain Rifflet"

Sylvain Rifflet: Troubadours

by Anthony Shaw
July 23, 2020

Sylvain Rifflet has been playing adventurous, somewhat rock-related jazz for since around 2000, and for much of the time has done so alongside a trumpeter. His emergence on the international scene in the first decade of this century was with the French quintet Rockingchair, where his co-leader was contemporary French trumpeter, Arielle Besson. They were awarded ...

Sylvain Rifflet: Troubadours

by Angelo Leonardi
March 24, 2020

In questo decennio il sassofonista Sylvain Rifflet s'è imposto tra gli emergenti più eclettici del jazz francese con dischi molto apprezzati, come l'audace Mechanics (Jazz Village 2015) e l'orchestrale Refocus (Verve 2017). In quest'ultimo ha voluto affermare la sua filiazione per Stan Getz (di cui rilegge l'album Focus) anche se la vicinanza è solo timbrica e ...

Sylvain Rifflet

Saxophonist, Clarinettist and French composer, graduated from the Conservatoire de Paris, Sylvain Rifflet is the winner of the competition of La Defense and has received several awards including a "victoire du jazz" and a "Django d’or". He has performed or recorded with many musicians, including some of the "must-see" performers on the European scene (Louis Sclavis, Aldo Romano, Michel Portal, Kenny Wheeler, Riccardo Del Fra ...) but also alongside American musicians such as Joey Baron, Jon Irabagon, Jon Hollenbeck, or Michael Formaneck ... Spearheading the young generation of jazz musicians from the first decade of the 21st century, he has collaborated with those who are today on the front of the European "new scene": Verneri Pohjola, Airelle Besson, Thomas de Pourquery , Alban Darche, Pascal Schumacher, Rembrandt Freirichs, Florian Weber, Eve Risser, Sébastien Boisseau, Henning Sieverts and Fred Pallem ..

Troubadours

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2019
Track listing: Sordello (da Goito); Eble (de Ventadour); Alberico (da Romano); Beatrice (de Die); Na (de Casteldoza); Le murmure I'vo'bene; Bertran (de Born); Azalais (de Porcairagues); The Peacocks

Rembrandt Frerichs Trio + Sylvain Rifflet & Joce Mienniel Live at BIMHUIS Amsterdam

by BIMHUIS
February 1, 2019

Dutch pianist Rembrandt Frerichs, Tony Overwater and Vinsent Planjer have developed a telepathic interplay thanks to more than a decade of collective work as a trio. With their concert series Made in Europe they expand their vision far beyond their national borders. After a successful edition with Italian trumpeter Paolo Fresu for this concert they perform ...

Perpetual Motion

By Sylvain Rifflet

Label: Jazz Village
Released: 2015
Track listing: Oasis; Heat On The Heather; Bird's Lament; Black Hole; From One To Nine; Round Paris; Aska Me; Fleur De Lis; Maybe; Nero's Expedition; My Tiny Butterfly; From The Jazz Book No. 2; From The Jazz Book Extended; Santa Fe.

Alban Darche Hyprcub: Crooked House

by Alberto Bazzurro
August 27, 2015

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 ...

Sylvain Rifflet & Jon Irabagon: Perpetual Motion

by Hrayr Attarian
August 2, 2015

The composer, poet and instrument inventor Louis Thomas Hardin, alias Moondog remains one of the most celebrated and eccentric figures in the annals of modern music. The Kansas born Hardin, who lost his sight in a farming accident at 16, went from a unique street performer in New York to a published and recorded influential musician ...

Perpetual Motion (A Celebration of Moondog)

By Sylvain Rifflet

Label: Jazz Village
Released: 2014
Track listing: Oasis; Heat On The Heather; Bird's Lament; Black Hole; From One To Nine; Round Paris; Aska Me; Fleur De Lis; Maybe; Nero's Expedition; My Tiny Butterfly; From The Jazz Book No. 2; From The Jazz Book Extended; Santa Fe.

Sylvain Rifflet & Jon Irabagon: Perpetual Motion (A Celebration of Moondog)

by Karl Ackermann
November 27, 2014

In 1932, when he was sixteen years old, living in the heartland of depression era America, a farm accident left Louis Thomas Hardin blind. For roughly twenty-five years spanning the 1940s to the mid-1970s, he was often found on some street corner in the vicinity of 52nd Street and 6th Avenue in Manhattan, sometimes talking philosophically ...