Richard Galliano - Paris Concert ( Theatre du Châtelet )

"The story of a painter, a musician, a composer, an artist; music has never been as close to a pictorial work of art as the music of Richard Galliano. The maestro now stands in front of the white canvas, at the Foyer du Theatre du Châtelet..."

Theatre du Châtelet. The temple of Parisian music, just a short walk from the bakns of the Seine. There, in front of his audience, Richard Galliano makes his entrance with only the accordion. Double the responsibility yet double the joy to play in front of his own people.

A festive maze of sounds, that touches the form : jazz, tango French song...waills of blues emerge from the folds of his accordion. Travelling with his compositions, the ones that brought him to perform on stage throughout the world, without forgetting those of Astor Piazzolla, who he has always loved and celebrated in his own way. Yes, because Galliano knows how to shape the material to himself : the teaching of the composer from Mar de La Plata are well visible, but as a starting point, not as a landing place.

Moving, never taking for granted the solutions, always at the service of the melody and the rhythm - principle elements of dance - very attentive to the depth and the form; because, like few artists, Galliano joins technical skill and syntactical knowledge of the music from the 1900s with an uncommon emotionality.

Chat Pitre opens the album, one of the most beautiful pieces written by this accordion player from Cannes, and is followed by Gnossienne 1 and Gnossienne 2 by Erik Satie.

But there is a lot of Italy in his latest "Paris Concert", and not only for the italian label, Cam Jazz, that has realeased this work ( for which Galliano had already recorded the beautiful "L'Hymne à l' Amour", inviting vibraphonist Gary Burton ), but also for his tribute to a very popular Italian song, Caruso, which brought worlwide fame to Lucio Dalla.

And then "Round Midnight" by Thelonius Monk, an artist that Galliano is particularly attached and to whom he has rendered homage many times during his career: a version thought out in absolute respect for the Monkian concept.

If, as Virginia Woolfs writes, in solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories and the details around us, then this solo album gifts us with a Galliano in his most profound essence, as artist and as a man".

John Tchicai Lunar Quartet - Look To The Neutrino

Approaching jazz from a wide scope, Afro-Danish American John Tchicai is a composer/saxophonist whose music is internationally known for its compelling sense of rhythm, drama and humor, its freedom, spirituality, healing qualities and ultimate freshness. He recorded with both John Coltrane ("Ascension") and John Lennon ("Life with Lions"), founded ensembles like "New York Art Quartet", "Cadentia Nova Danica" and "John Tchicai & the Archetypes"; he has composed for jazz & classical ensembles and he records, tours and teaches continuously. John Tchicai is the first recipient of a lifetime grant for Jazz performance from the State of Danmark.


"It is not often one meets a person in the music-business who menage to combine three very different activites into one but that is the case with Enzo Carpentieri. He is able to be the perfect host, an organizer of concerts and at the same time a top notch drummer who can make his drumset sound as if he didn't do anything else the whole day. I first Enzo the 2nd of June 2006 at the Zero Zero Jazz Festival in Abano, where I was doing a workshop and the day after a duo concert with pianist Greg Burk. Now in 2008 Enzo invited me for more surprises. There was a concert with the group "Dolphiana" that I didn't know at all, which became a very inspired me. Then some days after, we started recording the material for the present Cd with Enzo on the drumset, my man and co-composer Greg Burk on the piano and with bassist marc Abrams who Enzo and Greg already knew and spove very highly of, and they were right. Mark was exactly the man needed to make the group a harmonious unity with his optimistic and flexible attitude which is a must in the creative improvisational encounters of today.
John Tchicai

Bozilo - Live

Born in a music loving family in Belgrade in 1968, Bojan Zulfikarpasic starts playing the piano at the age of 5. “In my country, music is a very widespread activity, and since working days finish quite early, family and friends would gather at my parent’s house as early as 3 o’clock in the afternoon to socialize and play music until late at night. I used to go to sleep listening to these Yugoslavian folksongs. Then I discovered Bach, Ravel and Debussy through my teachers, The Beatles – thanks to a friend – and Brazilian music with my father. I played these tunes by ear, trying to find the right chords, which already amounts to a jazz attitude”. As a teenager, while continuing his lessons in music school, he starts playing in bands and becomes known musician on the Belgrade jazz and rock scene (resulting in 1989 in receiving the award for Best Young Jazz Musician of Yugoslavia).

In 1986 he receives a scholarship to study three months with Clare Fischer at the Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in Michigan in the USA. Then, after his military service in former Yugoslavia, where in the army orchestra he discovers the richness of traditional Balkan music, he moves to Paris in 1988, to become in a few years time an unavoidable name in French jazz. He applies for the CIM, a school of reference for many young artists, where he quickly settles in and starts working with other musicians. With guitarist Noël Akchoté he plays all the Parisian bars and clubs, both as a duo and in quintet formation. Next to that he starts playing with contemporaries like Julien Lourau, Magic Malik and others.

The rise to recognition begins in 1990. Replacing the pianist of bassist Marc Buronfosse’s quartet (with François Merville on drums and Julien Lourau on sax), Bojan wins the prize for best soloist at the ’Concours de la Défense’ and his appearance does not go unnoticed by some of France’s biggest names in jazz. From 1991 he starts working with famous French double bass player Henri Texier in his successful Azur Quartet, later followed by clarinettist Michel Portal, both of them bringing him on to the big stages of France, Europe and further. With his special language – consisting of a mature jazz vocabulary with subtly dosed folkloric influences from the Balkans – Bojan leaves an indelible imprint on all the groups he plays with.

Apart from playing and recording as a sideman, Bojan leads his own formations.

In 1993 he starts his collaboration with Label Bleu with the debut album of the Bojan Z Quartet, which he recorded in New York, followed by Yopla!, his second quartet recording, released in 1995. In 1999, he releases his successful multi-ethnical project Koreni, inviting eight musicians from different horizons among whom Algerian percussionist Karim Ziad, Turkish ney master Kudsi Erguner, Macedonian rock guitarist Vlatko Stefanovski and some old friends from Belgrade, bassists Predrag Revisin and Vojin Draskoci.

After some years of thought and reflection on the endeavour of solo piano playing, Bojan records his internationally praised and revered cd Solobsession, released in 2001. This album, full of superb compositions and out-of-the-ordinary piano playing, confirms once again his status as a jazz pianist who resembles no other, with seemingly unlimited talents.

As well with the groups of musicians like Texier, Portal and Lourau, as with his own bands, trio and solo he’s been playing at big festivals like Montreal, North Sea Jazz, Paris Jazz Festival, Copenhagen Jazz Festival, Jazz in Marciac, La Roque d'Anthéron etc. and in famous concert halls like Palau de la Musica in Barcelona and Konzerthaus Wien.

In 2002 Bojan Zulfikarpasic is granted the title of Chevalier de l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government and receives the Prix Django Reinhardt for Musician of the Year from the French Académie du Jazz.

His fifth album for Label Bleu, his first in trio format "Transpacifik" marks the beginning of colaborations with american musicians, such as bassist Scott Colley and New York jazz drummer Nasheet Waits.
It was recorded in New York in 2003. Since he's playing with Ben Perowsky, or Ari Hoenig on drums and the great french bassist Remi Vignolo.

In 2005 he was awarded the "European Jazz Prize" ( Hans Koller Prize) as the best european jazz artist.

His latest CD "Xenophonia" was released in 2006, and has won the prize "Les victoires du jazz 2007" as the best album of the year.

Now the new musical project is out Bozilo - Live is available.






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