Reviews
chroniques de CD, DVD
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GOOD / BON |
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VERY GOOD / TRES BON |
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GREAT / COUP DE COEUR |
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A MUST / INDISPENSABLE |
Latest Reviews L’actu des chroniques
| Latin Jazz |
Joaquin Núñez & Habana Safari – Ruta De La Clave
Throughout the album, every solo feels earned, every phrase brimming with invention. There’s a palpable joy in the music-making, a sense that each player is both deeply engaged with the material and in dialogue with the rest of the ensemble.
| Americana |
CHARLES ELLSWORTH – Cosmic Cannon Fodder
Entre passé et présent, voici l’album d’un songwriter dont la légitimité et la sincérité ne sauraient être mises en question. Charles Ellsworth mérite bien davantage que le bénéfice du doute, concédons-lui volontiers ce point.
| Jazz |
NYO JAZZ – Live in Johannesburg
This album is more than a showcase of young talent; it is a document of musical diplomacy, emotional intelligence, and artistic excellence.
| Jazz |
Camila Meza – Portal
In its sweeping arrangements, its spiritual lyricism, and its profound sense of intimacy, Portal is both a gift and a challenge: to feel more, to listen more deeply, and perhaps, to reimagine the world we want to create.
| Jazz |
Alon Farber Hagiga – Dream is Dream
Farber invites us all in, slipping into each track the essence of what he believes a musical work should be. It is an offering of depth over gloss, of structure over spectacle, of meaning over immediacy.
| Blues-Rock |
THE DAVIDSON TRIO – Cougar
Ces nouveaux alchimistes d’un blues-rock incendiaire made by un power trio d’enfer raniment un genre que l’on eut le tort d’enterrer trop vite… Ils sont donc de retour, et ça risque de barder sévère!
| Jazz |
Michael Dease – City Life: Music Of Gregg Hill
This is a recording to study, to absorb, to aspire to. Dease reminds us that musical excellence is not simply a matter of reading notes on a page. It is about vision. It is about presence.
| Jazz |
AZAT BAYAZITOV – Expectations
Tant par l’éblouissante inventivité de ses thèmes et de leurs arrangements qu’au regard du brio de leur exécution, voici donc l’une des perles essentielles de la production jazz actuelle.
| Jazz |
Charles Chen – Building Characters
One thing is certain: Charles Chen is an artist of rare promise, whose creative fire is as bright as the constellations that seem to inspire him.
| Jazz |
Jenna McLean… in two albums
A Voice That Shines Through the Standards: Tracing the Artistic Journey of Jenna McLean.
| Jazz |
GALACTIC AND IRMA THOMAS – Audience With The Queen
Audience With the Queen is a masterwork. It’s soul music for the soul itself, demanding to be played loud and lived with fully.
| Jazz |
Charles Chen – Building Characters (FR review)
Les arrangements musicaux de Charles Chen ont une importance suprême sur le déroulement de cet album, il arrive à nous faire ressentir le lien entre ces 8 créations.
| Jazz |
LEE KONITZ – The Quintessence
Non moins véloce et virtuose qu’un Charlie Parker, Lee Konitz n’en préservait pas moins une élégance que l’on prit souvent (à tort) pour de la retenue, alors qu’elle ne reflétait qu’une exigence érigée en valeur cardinale.
| Jazz |
Freedom Art Quartet – First Dance
If beauty in art needs a name, then strangely, perhaps appropriately, that name might just be Freedom Art Quartet.
| Chanson, Pop, Rock |
KPL
Avec son timbre subtilement voilé et ses allitérations choisies, KPL propose une nouvelle déclinaison de cette french touch tant célébrée, exempte, pour une fois, de toute trace de superficialité.
| Jazz |
Tyreek McDole – Open Up Your Senses (ENG review)
Indeed, McDole’s sound evokes shades of Nat King Cole, his baritone is warm, rounded, unforced, and touched by a quiet elegance. He can croon, yes, but never indulges in excess.
| Jazz |
Keith LaMar – Albert Marquès – Live From Death Row
The album doesn’t attempt to mask its rawness, it leans into it. The sound of a man calling in poetry from a prison phone line isn’t polished. It isn’t pristine. But it is real.
| World Jazz |
The Beveled Edges – I Guess We’re Not Alone
Still, what a voice it is. Bhushan’s vocals command attention with a warmth and power that veer, intriguingly, toward a sort of nostalgic Parisian melancholy.
| Jazz |
Tim Jago – Time Shift
As 2025 unfolds, Timeshift stands out as one of the year’s most imaginative and rewarding jazz releases. It’s a record that doesn’t simply entertain, it challenges, invites, and ultimately transports.
| Jazz Funk |
JASON MILES – The Lisbon Electric 4tet
Entièrement instrumental (et à nouveau mixé et mastérisé par Jimmy Bralower), un album à rapprocher des récentes productions d’autres vétérans jazz-funk tels que Brian Jackson et Lonnie Liston Smith chez Jazz Is Dead.
| Jazz |
Yotam Ben-Or Quartet – Impermanence
With Impermanence, his latest album, Ben-Or takes a deeply personal turn, offering not just a collection of compositions, but a philosophical statement on music, creation, and identity.
| Jazz |
Dickson & Familiar – All The Light Of Your Sphere
What Glen Dickson and his accomplice Bob Familiar offer isn’t just music in any conventional sense. It’s closer to poetry, cerebral, unhurried, insistent. A soundscape to be read, not simply heard.
| Jazz Funk |
JASON MILES – Cosmopolitan Remastered
Bien que présentant un casting qui ferait aujourd’hui rêver, “Cosmopolitan” demeura quasiment inédit 46 ans durant (hormis deux publications confidentielles au début de ce millénaire, l’une en France et l’autre au Japon).
| Jazz |
Mark Masters Ensemble revisits Sam Rivers and Billy Harper
These two albums shine a spotlight on some of the most intellectually rigorous and emotionally charged saxophone compositions of the 20th century, works that continue to resonate and instruct.
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