Fabio Zeppetella, Emmanuel Bex, Roberto Gatto, Geraldine Laurent - Chansons!

Size: 120,6 MB
Time: 52:06
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2017
Styles: Jazz
Art: Front

01. E La Chiamano Estate (5:36)
02. Bocca Di Rosa (5:13)
03. Buona Notte Fiorellino (1:11)
04. A Me Me Piace O' Blues (4:03)
05. Napule E (5:07)
06. Luna Rossa (6:09)
07. Avec Le Temp (3:27)
08. C'est Si Bon (5:01)
09. L' Ete Indien (7:00)
10. Les Temps Des Cerises (4:33)
11. Le Bon Dieu (4:40)

Chansons! is a musical conception similar to a diplomatic treaty or melodious embrace between cousins. Essentially, it's an innovative exchange between two neighboring worlds that have always eyed and inspired one other with reciprocal curiosity. Italy and France unite as allies on the musical front, gathering on the field four extraordinary talents: Fabio Zeppetella, Roberto Gatto, Géraldine Laurent, and Emmanuel Bex. This original quartet uniquely interprets eleven songs that best reflect the musical tradition of singer-songwriters belonging to these two countries. Starting from the highly popular jazz composer Bruno Martino, passing through the ever-present Fabrizio De André and Francesco De Gregori and arriving to Pino Daniele, another milestone; on the French scene are idols such as Jacques Brel, Leo Ferré, Yves Montand, and Joe Dassin. The quartet's interpretation is extraordinary and the songs on Chansons! enchant from beginning to end. While the harmonious complicity of Gatto, Bex, and Zeppetella is a well-known fact, the musical fluency added by the involvement of Laurent is unexpected, further enriching this innovative project. Also features compositions by: Vincenzo De Crescenzo-Antonio Vian, Henri Betti-André Hornez, and Jean-Baptiste Clément-Antoine Renard. Personnel: Fabio Zeppetella - guitar; Emmanuel Bex - organ, voice; Géraldine Laurent - alto sax; Roberto Gatto - drums.

Chansons!

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Géraldine Laurent - Time Out Trio

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 2002
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 47:13
Size: 108,6 MB
Art: Front

(4:03)  1. Autumn Nocturne
(4:09)  2. Lester Left Town
(5:52)  3. I Fall In Love Too Easily
(2:38)  4. Rejoicing
(5:18)  5. Skylark
(7:13)  6. Fable Of Faubus
(4:23)  7. A Quiet
(6:23)  8. Repeat
(5:00)  9. Tijuana Gift Shop
(2:10) 10. Love Letters

Formidable, as her compatriots would say. Time Out Trio, the debut album from young French saxophonist Geraldine Laurent, introduces a bare knuckle force of nature, well-versed in the jazz tradition but not afraid to put her own abandoned spin on it. Rough-edged, risk-taking, high octane, totally in the moment, the music bursts out of the speakers like a hurricane. Laurent's alto playing is rooted in Charlie Parker, his wild, sometimes squawking, clattering attack played with a slightly softer read and with a narrower embouchure, but still well tough. Other voices echo round the edges: alto saxophonists Ornette Coleman, Cannonball Adderley and Joe Harriott. And occasionally, on the infrequent ballad, the divine Paul Desmond. But most of the time, Laurent, who's on-mic for practically the entire 47 minutes of the album, just wails. Recorded in a Paris studio in December 2006, Time Out Trio has an in-your-face, warts-and-all, lo-fi live sound, brilliantly suited to Laurent's gutsy style. There are nine standards and one original, and it's surely no coincidence that two of the tunes are by bassist and bandleader Charles Mingus, whose turbulent spirit resonates here. The longest track, a seven-plus minute head-charge through Mingus' ferocious "Fables Of Faubus," is outstanding. 

Laurent romps through the tune and an extended solo paying full homage to reed player Eric Dolphy's signature, incandescent reading on Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus (Candid, 1960), avoiding the tortured outer extremes of Dolphy's vocalizations, yet communicating plenty of her own rebel passion. Mingus, you sense, would have loved it. Other standouts though there isn't one dud on the set include dynamic readings of Wayne Shorter's "Lester Left Town" and Hoagy Carmichael's "Skylark," and Laurent's own "A Quiet," which is a soft, wistful ballad before the gas gets turned up. Laurent is perfectly matched by her colleagues, bassist Yoni Zelnik and drummer Laurent Bataille. Both stand toe-to-toe alongside her throughout, and Mingus analogies continue to suggest themselves. Zelnik plays with the same muscle and abandon, Bataille with the confrontational zeal of the great man's favorite drummer, Danny Richmond. Most of the time, they work the engine room Zelnik with a mixture of ostinatos and free flourishes, Bataille in call-and -response and each thrills on his couple of brief solos. This is an extraordinary debut album, and Geraldine Laurent is a gale force blast of good news.~ Chris May http://www.allaboutjazz.com/time-out-trio-geraldine-laurent-dreyfus-records-review-by-chris-may.php#.VBH_qRZZjkc

Personnel: Geraldine Laurent: alto saxophone; Yoni Zelnik: bass; Laurent Bataille: drums.

Time Out Trio

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