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Vanassextet

Amerikois

By Vanassextet

Label: Effendi Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Petit Michel; Brises Bises; Amérikois; Lumieres; Zaz; Voyagel Aux Piles; Aiken Hill; Sur les pistes.

Vanassextet: Amerikois

by Budd Kopman
April 10, 2005

Amérikois is a very deceptive album. It starts with “Petit Michel," which sounds very much like light jazz from a French movie, but then grows deeper in both emotion and musicality. The instrumentation changes with more use of the bass clarinet, a fabulous sound, in music with more intricate structure. Being a vibraphonist, ...

Vanassextet: Amerikois

by Stephen Latessa
January 7, 2005

A conversation among six people is not always an easy thing to pull off. There may be some who seek to overwhelm the others, and those all too content to be dominated. Too often the give and take may devolve into either discord or moody stasis. The wonder of the Jean Vanasse Sextet is that the ...