Julien Lourau - Saigon Quartet / Raphaël Imbert - N_Y Project
Right now I buy (too!) jazz record. I had my period frenetic lined collectionnite attempting to scaffold a ranking of the best staff out Blue Note 70s. I laugh even the emptiness of the thing. Bringing Hancock and Wayne Shorter and Tony Williams finally see behind and Grachan Moncur III and Andrew Hill course but also Bobby Hutcherson, Donald Byrd and the Messengers. Ahah, vain operation that now ... So of course I'm stuffed as it should, I forged son between these galaxies and close-woven canvas I think a fairly unique sound, I fear that those now as heard and understood. Yet when this not my week led me to the jazz department, my hands were almost without hesitation before the latest discs and Imbert Julien Lourau. I grabbed these known references to the second, and a bit of novelty for the second. Lourau with me for a while now, since the groovy gang of my high school years, and then especially with "The Rise", manifest in the splendid writing but also simple incantation. This is a saxophonist whose energy and I can not say that Coltrane or Rollins has the most influence. But does it really matter?
I will not write a feature article on Julien Lourau, first because I feel more viscerally and intellectually musqiue her, he is an artist who sticks to me physically and then because I own a good one too lazy to do any research about it. I can still say that it is relatively young (born in the 70's what), he recorded many records that number in here, just playing with Bojan Z and Henri Texier does not take a joke but nevermind.
This new disc recorded with a quartet including Laurent Coq au piano is very good, he alternated playing the alto and tenor, and when I myself have yet a clear preference for the sounds that to relieve viola, it flies beautifully, still enamored of repetitive riffs bordering on the sublime in the tear (see the very good, exalting the "Walking on Water"). What else? Thomas on bass Bramerie book a delightful score, full physical and Otis Brown III (whose name appears on many records at this time) is not left behind his drums. So much for the Lourau.
Imbert calls on him a melee with more music fusion. American trio, it delivers 13 tracks of high quality, alternating slow play, with air flights and more physical tension. The result is really good, Imbert releasing energy truly insane on his compositions. The melody of "Sanctuary Cloisters" is a delight, she slips naturally as a small nursery rhyme, the song gets carried away and then everything becomes clear, three jazz musicians deliver a total groove, jazz as I love it, powerful and lyrical .
Imbert is an exile in New York since the Medici Foundation gave a grant off-the-Walls. She has made the foundation, the artist perfectly repect the deal, a very beautiful music emerges from this "N_Y Project"
So here I turned to the old and the young is that I Genari call to order! And I have not spoken there six months Disc Stéphane Kerecki. I should have.