Showing posts with label Yves Brouqui. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Yves Brouqui. Show all posts

Friday, March 17, 2017

Yves Brouqui Trio - How Little We Know

Size: 158,7 MB
Time: 68:29
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2017
Styles: Jazz: Guitar Jazz
Art: Front

01. How Little We Know (6:35)
02. These Are Soulful Days (6:44)
03. Between You And Me (5:39)
04. Love Letters (6:37)
05. Close Your Eyes (4:16)
06. Lament (6:59)
07. Street Of Dreams (7:00)
08. Blues For Pm (9:01)
09. Lazy Bird (4:52)
10. Something Like Bags (6:20)
11. This Is New (4:22)

From the first listen one is caught by this round sound, subtle, proper to the great jazz guitarists…

Magnificent subtleties, nuances in touch, excellent musicality is served by a return to the swing and the melody that surpasses the flawless virtuosity of the guitar leader. From album to album, here the 5th as leader, Yves Brouqui is in the line of Jim Hall, Wes Montgomery, Kenny Burrell…

His 10 years stay in New York City, particularly at the Small’s where he met the top of the East Coast jazz scene, allowed him to assert his play and style. An album that all the lovers of the 6 strings must acquire and keep preciously on the “Best of” shelf. As for the rhythm that accompanies it … Extremely solid! ~Christian Grimauld

How Little We Know

Friday, July 22, 2016

Yves Brouqui - The Music Of Horace Silver

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 60:54
Size: 139.4 MB
Styles: Guitar jazz
Year: 2011
Art: Front

[6:14] 1. Quicksilver
[5:13] 2. Horacescope
[7:09] 3. Love Walk
[5:16] 4. No Smoking
[7:59] 5. Creepin'in
[5:36] 6. Yeah
[4:43] 7. Sweet Stuff
[6:53] 8. The Saint Vitus Dance
[5:45] 9. Mayreh
[6:02] 10. I Remember Dan

Double Bass – Mathias Allamane; Drums – Joe Strasser; Guitar – Yves Brouqui; Piano – Laurent Courthaliac.

Brouqui and his men attack 7 challenging Silver tunes (plus 3 originals) with drive, intensity and swing. While the players come at the music from a bebop perspective, they capture the funky Silver harmonies (e.g., first few bars of HoraceScope) but Courthaliac doesn't attempt to mimic the unique Silver right hand. Which is OK cause no-one can.

These aren't the usual Silver tunes (no Nica or Song for My Father) and thus attest to the marvelous depth of his catalog. Sweet Stuff and St. Vitus are especially a pleasure to hear in this fresh context. Some cuts are taken at breakneck speed which is both jaw-dropping and demonstrates how intimately these players know and understand what they're up to. Quite bracing and quite terrific! ~George Kaplan

The Music Of Horace Silver

Monday, August 11, 2014

Yves Brouqui - Foreign Currency

Styles: Guitar Jazz
Year: 2006
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 53:20
Size: 122,3 MB
Art: Front

(5:37)  1. Will You Still Be Mine
(5:24)  2. The More I See You
(5:41)  3. An Eye With Steeve
(6:50)  4. You Go To My Head
(6:16)  5. Somewhere In The City
(6:43)  6. The End Of A Love Affair
(6:25)  7. From this Moment On
(5:20)  8. Uhhuh!
(5:01)  9. Love Is A Many Splendored Thing

Classical guitarist and personal style, leaving a large part in the melody and blues, Yves Brouqui , popular and sought sideman, is also a persuasive leader who likes to give his own version of little known standards and play his compositions. His latest personal project is an adaptation for piano quartet / guitar music of the American composer and pianist Horace Silver, culminated in the release of his latest CD as a leader, "  The Music of Horace Silver  . " A native of Grenoble, Yves Brouqui began studying jazz in the early 80s with local musicians as Benoit Sourisse . After studying at CIM in Paris, he decided to turn professional when Simon Goubert engages in his first sextet. This group will allow it to become known and to be asked by musicians such as Luigi Trussardi, Philippe Combelle, Olivier Hutman, Alain Jean-Marie , or the Belgian musicianJacques Pelzer , former partner René Thomas. Follows a prolific period during which it can be heard alongside Steve Potts - with whom he remained six years. It will also be hired by the American drummer - former partner of Wes Montgomery - George Brownwho also uses Emmanuel Bex to complete the trio. It will also, during this period, appeared in the quartet of Christian Vander, alongside his friend pianist Emmanuel Borghi, and the septet Pierre Blanchard. 

Co-founder of the first sextet Laurent Fickelson the early 90s, he then enters the quintet 'of Emmanuel Bex - the Bextet -with whom he recorded two CDs and plays regularly and intensively to Paris, in the provinces, in some countries Europe and South America. After a brief stay in New York, Yves Brouqui decided to settle there. It is in a jazz club became famous, the Smalls Jazz Club , he contacted the New York scene. The legendary "jam sessions" of "Smalls" allow him to be heard and appreciated American musicians. His encounter with tenor saxophonistGrant Stewart will lead to the creation of a quartet with Nicolas Rageau (bass) and Johnny Ellis or Phil Stewart (drums).This group produced locally and conduct several tours in France. During his stay, which lasted eight years, Yves Brouqui meeting and working with the next generation of musicians as New Yorkers Michael "Spike" Wilner (with whom he recorded two CDs for Fresh Sound), Joe Strasser, Mark Taylor, Joe Magnarelli, Jim Rotundi, Sam Yahel, Brian Floody, Tony Leone, Rob Bargad, Sylvia Cuenca, Charles Ruggiero, Mike Le Donne, Eric Alexander, Joe Farnsworth, Joe Cohn, Joel Forbes, Dan Converse, Frank Amsalem, Joe Martin, Niel Minor, Barak Mori Peter Zack, Mike Karn, John Weber, Paul Gill, and those of previous generations asBobby Durham, Bob Mover, Charles Dennis and Mike Clarke.

 He befriends guitarist Peter Bernstein , occasionally it replaces, including within the pianist / organist group Mike Le Donne   another New Yorker club has also become famous:Smoke. Yves Brouqui records one after her first two CDs as a leader. The first, "  Foreign Currency  "will be awarded the Diapason d'Or in Diapason magazine and the second, "  Live at Smalls  "will also receive excellent reviews from the press. Once back in France Yves Brouqui worked and recorded with the younger generation of Parisian musicians like Fabien Mary, Xavier Richardeau (two CDs for Taxi Rec.) Laurent Courthaliac David Sauzay Mourad Benhamou , but  Alain Jean-Marie, Luigi Trussardi, James Stafford, Douglas Sides . Together with Nicolas Rageau, he recorded a third album for Elabeth "Made In France", alongside Grant Stewart and Joe Magnarelli then set up a project with two guitars with Peter Bernstein. It will also have the opportunity to accompany the singer Bob Dorough during his time at Sunset in Paris. Along with its status as a guitarist of " Duc Des Lombards Jazz Affair "sextet" home "of the Parisian club, led by Xavier Richardeau , he joined the new quintet of singer Elisabeth Kontomanou with whom he turns three years and rides a draft quartet with saxophonist Martin Jacobsen will happen in Parisian clubs and Africa and Portugal. More recently, he accompanied, alternating with Alain Jean-Marie, the New Yorker saxophonist Dmitry Baevsky during his visits to France. Recently, he released his new CD as a leader "  Tribute to Horace Silver  "on the label Elabeth. Translate by google... Bio ~ http://www.yvesbrouqui.com/bio/