Laurent Delteil

Laurent Marode est un pianiste français dans le métier depuis plus de quinze ans. Il multiplie les projets mais avec ce nouvel album en nonet, ce sont ses talents d’arrangeur qu’il a voulu mettre en avant. Le disque alterne ses compositions avec des reprises. Cinq soufflants (cuivres et anches), un vibraphone, basse et batterie accompagnent le piano du leader. Du jazz à l’ancienne, du jazz de grand hôtel qui swingue allégrement. Même sans les voir, on entend chaque soliste se lever de derrière son pupitre pour y aller de son petit chorus pendant que les autres assurent la pulsation. Son arrangement de Penny Lane est un bel exemple de son travail. Partant des idées de George Martin qu’il “jazzifie”, il confie la mélodie de McCartney aux cuivres puis au vibraphone et enfin au saxos. Superbe. La grande classe.

Laurent Cugny & Orchestre National De Jazz - Yesternow (1994) {Verve 522 511-2} (Miles Davis related)
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Jazz / Modern Big Band / Contemporary Jazz / Fusion

I'm very fond of Miles' '70s "electric" period, especially the dark, deep live albums he recorded during this time (namely Dark Magus and Agharta). This disc, which gives MD the big-band treatment, offers many pleasures of its own, although, for my money, neither Cugny nor anyone else (save maybe Bill Laswell) has ever reached the same primal place that Miles did during this time. Excellent album! This album is something special. Great atmosphere, 60 minutes of pure enjoying.

Bassiste éclectique, Laurent Salzard a travaillé avec Ed Motta, Tony Allen, Emanuel Bex, Sly Johnson ou Lulu Gainsbourg. Il sort ce mois-ci sur le label Dreamophone son premier album "Time Keeper" dans lequel il mélange aussi les styles: Jazz, Groove, Rock, Afro… Un musique résolument moderne, aux saveurs électriques et groovy qui laisse aussi la place à des moments plus intimistes et poétiques où lyrisme et mélodie sont toujours présents. Le fruit d'une quête d'identité sans frontières.

Gil Evans & Laurent Cugny Big Band Lumiere - Golden Hair (1989) {EmArcy 838 773-2}
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© 1989 EmArcy / PolyGram | 838 773-2
Jazz / Modern Big Band / Progressive Jazz / Post Bop / Contemporary Jazz

The second of two album to come out of the Nov 1987 sessions featuring the great Gil Evans with Laurent Cugny's Big Band Lumiere. The first album is RHYTHM-A-NING. Laurent Cugny was born in 1955, he is one of the best French jazz musician and known as a specialist of Gil Evans' music. Laurent wears two hats: he is, on one side, a musician and, on the other, a musicologist and a professor at the Paris-Sorbonne University. Self-taught musician, he started playing the piano when he was ten and played in amateur groups at the age of eighteen. He created several groups while he was studying economics and film studies. In 1979, he created the Big Band Lumiere and won the same year the third prize of piano at the National Jazz Competition in La Defense. In 1980, he also received prizes for its compositions and for the Big Band Lumiere.

Laurent de Wilde (born in Washington, D.C. in 1960) is a French jazz pianist, composer and writer. In 1987, he recorded the first of a series of four albums for Ida Records Off the Boat with Eddie Henderson, Ralph Moore, backed by Ira Coleman on bass and Billy Hart on drums. In 1989, Odd and Blue was released with Coleman and Jack DeJohnette (drums), followed in 1990 by Colors of Manhattan, with Coleman, Henderson and Lewis Nash. In 1995, de Wilde signed with Sony Jazz (Columbia) and recorded The Back Burner.