Dal Sasso

Dal Sasso Big Band - John Coltrane's Africa Brass Revisited (2021)

Dal Sasso Big Band - John Coltrane's Africa Brass Revisited (2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 514 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 206 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:28:45
Jazz, Big Band | Label: Jazz & People

In 1961, John Coltrane made his very first record for the Impulse label and signed, on this occasion, an album unique in his rich discography because it is the only one that the saxophonist has ever recorded with a big band: "Africa/Brass".
Christophe Dal Sasso & Dal Sasso Big Band - Le Carnajazz des animaux (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/48]

Christophe Dal Sasso & Dal Sasso Big Band - Le Carnajazz des animaux (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 48:47 minutes | 536 MB
Jazz, Big Band | Label: Klarthe Records, Official Digital Download

At the head of a breathtaking jazz orchestra, Christophe Dal Sasso revisits "Le Carnaval des animaux" by Camille Saint-Saëns. With the exception of a few pieces (Le Cygne, Aquarium), this work is characterized by humor and lightness, perhaps even mockery and irony. Under the fertile pen of one of France's greatest jazz orchestrators and arrangers, the text of the 14 movements remains faithful to the original. The work of arrangement and re-orchestration opens up areas of improvisation for outstanding soloists such as David El-Malek, Sophie Alour, Thomas Savy, Pierre de Bethmann and Julien Alour. This adaptation nonetheless lends a more moving, even introspective character to certain pieces. The rhythm of piano, double bass and drums plunges us into a whirlwind of swing, with all the animals dancing merrily away. How joyful! How beautiful is "Le Carnajazz des Animaux"!
Dal Sasso Big Band - John Coltrane's Africa Brass Revisited (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/48]

Dal Sasso Big Band - John Coltrane's Africa Brass Revisited (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 88:45 minutes | 1 GB
Jazz, Big Band | Label: Jazz & People, Official Digital Download

In 1961, John Coltrane made his very first record for the Impulse label and signed, on this occasion, an album unique in his rich discography because it is the only one that the saxophonist has ever recorded with a big band: "Africa/Brass".

Christophe Dal Sasso - Les Nebuleuses (2016) {JPCD}  Music

Posted by tiburon at Feb. 26, 2017
Christophe Dal Sasso - Les Nebuleuses (2016) {JPCD}

Christophe Dal Sasso - Les Nebuleuses (2016) {JPCD}
EAC 1.3 | FLAC tracks level 8 | Cue+Log+M3U | Full Scans 300dpi | 375MB + 5% Recovery
Genre: Avant-Garde Jazz, Post-Bop, Fusion

Christophe Dal Sasso's fifth album as a leader opens an ambitious and original musical adventure in the form of three cycles of compositions inspired by the infinity of the cosmos and the different components of the universe. Devoted to the nebulae, this recording presents itself as the first part of a trilogy with evolutionary orchestration. At the frontiers of classical writing and the soul of jazz, this first cycle is based on the association of a jazz quintet and a string trio (violin, viola and cello).

Christophe Dal Sasso - Pretextes (2011) {Discograph}  Music

Posted by tiburon at Feb. 26, 2017
Christophe Dal Sasso - Pretextes (2011) {Discograph}

Christophe Dal Sasso - Pretextes (2011) {Discograph}
EAC 0.99pb5 | FLAC tracks level 8 | Cue+Log+M3U | Full Scans 600dpi | 427MB + 5% Recovery
Genre: Avant-Garde Jazz, Post-Bop, Fusion

Dans un disque précédent, Exploration (2006), Dal Sasso, qui appartient à cette génération bénie née autour de 1968, exploitait l'héritage de Gil Evans et invitait en soliste un aîné, modèle légendaire d'intransigeance, le saxophoniste américain David Liebman. Créer des textures nouvelles qui jouent avec chaleur tantôt de dissonances doucement agressives (ainsi Morning Sound, où les flûtes ne craignent pas d'expressives faussetés), tantôt harmoniquement confortables (Rondo et Prétextes), où les cuivres et les anches enveloppent, telle est son ambition dans Prétextes.
Dal Sasso Big Band & Christophe Dal Sasso - The Palmer Suite (2019) [Official Digital Download]

Dal Sasso Big Band & Christophe Dal Sasso - The Palmer Suite (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44.1 kHz | Time - 52:52 minutes | 580 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover

Christophe Dal Sasso tells the story of Château Palmer and highlights what, for him, best characterizes the property "this mysterious equation between complexity and simplicity".

Dal Sasso Big Band - The Palmer Suite (2019) {Jazz&People}  Music

Posted by tiburon at Nov. 26, 2019
Dal Sasso Big Band - The Palmer Suite (2019) {Jazz&People}

Dal Sasso Big Band - The Palmer Suite (2019) {Jazz&People}
EAC 1.3 | FLAC tracks level 8 | Cue+Log+M3U+SFV | Full Scans 300dpi | 388MB + 5% Recovery
MP3 CBR 320 Kbps | 121MB + 5% Recovery
Genre: Jazz, Big Band

A la tête d’un orchestre époustouflant, Christophe Dal Sasso retrace en musique deux siècles d’histoire de l’un des plus prestigieux vignobles de Bordeaux. Habitée par le souffle du jazz, cette suite pour big band restitue en onze tableaux la tumultueuse saga de Château Palmer, sous la plume fertile de l’un des grands orchestrateurs de notre époque (Yusef Lateef, Milton Nascimento, les frères Belmondo, David Liebman…). Une œuvre épique à la mesure du cru d’exception qui l’a inspirée.

Christophe Dal Sasso - Exploration (2006) {Nocturne}  Music

Posted by tiburon at Feb. 1, 2017
Christophe Dal Sasso - Exploration (2006) {Nocturne}

Christophe Dal Sasso - Exploration (2006) {Nocturne}
EAC 1.0b3 | FLAC tracks level 8 | Cue+Log+M3U | Full Scans 600dpi | 420MB + 5% Recovery
MP3 CBR 320 Kbps | 170MB + 5% Recovery
Genre: Jazz, Free Jazz, Fusion

The story goes that flautist/bandleader Christophe dal Sasso, in his tireless quest for new sonorities for his arranging tasks, absorbed the lessons of saxophonist Dave Liebman's treatise A Chromatic Approach to Jazz Harmony and Melody. Onstage some time later with a big band at Paris's Sunset nightclub, he applied those lessons to an arrangement of Woody Shaw's "Little Red Fantasy ; and who should be in the audience but Liebman himself, who hears something oddly familiar in the group's sound. Liebman would sit in with the band, thus beginning a collaboration whose fullest fruition is this disc.

Christophe Dal Sasso - Les Nébuleuses (2016)  Music

Posted by Domestos at July 9, 2018
Christophe Dal Sasso - Les Nébuleuses (2016)

Christophe Dal Sasso - Les Nébuleuses (2016)
MP3 CBR 320kbps | 00:53:26 | 133.31 Mb | Covers
Contemporary Jazz, Modern Creative | Country: France | Label: Jazz&People

De la théorie du big band à la théorie du big bang ! Après sa relecture de « A Love Supreme » de John Coltrane en grand orchestre, Christophe Dal Sasso inaugure un nouveau cycle de compositions inspiré des nébuleuses. Entre forme écrite et improvisation, principes sériels et jazz post-coltranien, il imagine un dispositif orchestral qui reproduit le caractère diffus et instable de ces objets célestes en associant un trio à cordes à un quintet de jazz. "Savantes combinaisons de timbres, alternances d’anarchie atomique et de pesanteur matérielle, chorégraphie des astres et vertige du chaos et de l’informe, Les Nébuleuses est une œuvre d’essence dynamique, qui laisse au hasard ses droits et célèbre l’espace dans ses multiplicités figuratives." — Les Inrocks (sélection "les 10 albums de jazz à écouter au plus vite")

Christophe Dal Sasso - Ressac (2013) [Official Digital Download]  Vinyl & HR

Posted by Pisulik at March 21, 2019
Christophe Dal Sasso - Ressac (2013) [Official Digital Download]

Christophe Dal Sasso - Ressac (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Time - 65:52 minutes | 758 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover

The composer, arranger and flutist Christophe Dal Sasso delivers an impressionist disc where he plays with artistic forms, colors, feelings, and gives them to share. After having written extensively for orchestras of varying dimensions, and after rich collaborations with the Belmondo brothers, the saxophonist David Liebman or the star of the Brazilian song Milton Nascimento, Christophe Dal Sasso ventures into a new direction today, seeking to establish correspondences between forms and artistic practices.