Laurent Delteil

« On se regarde pas dans le miroir pour se voir mais pour voir ce que les autres voient. » …

Trinity, a split CD with the bands Nouvelles Lectures Cosmopolites and Legendary Pink Dots, was released on the portuguese label Fast Forward. It features Laurent Pernice’s first experimentation with what he calls "immobile music" - long, repetitive tracks where the only variations are caused by accidental movements.

Johann Sebastian Bach - Pierre-Laurent Aimard - Die Kunst der Fuge
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Label/Cat#: Deutsche Grammophon # 00289 477 7345 GH | Country/Year: Germany 2008
Genre: Classical | Style: Baroque, Piano

"Die Kunst der Fuge: what a way to make your Deutsche Grammophon solo recording debut. That's especially true if you're Pierre-Laurent Aimard, whose full-time gig is with Pierre Boulez's Ensemble InterContemporain and whose reputation was made in the avant-garde and not the late Baroque…" ~allmusicguide

Laurent Cugny Big Band Lumiere - Santander (1991) {EmArcy 838 266-2}
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© 1991 EmArcy / Phonogram / PolyGram | 838 266-2
Jazz / Modern Big Band / Contemporary Jazz / Progressive Jazz

This is a sensational album that seemlessly merges big band conceptions with progressive electric instrumentation, without sacrificing any of the artistic values that can be found in either when in the right hands. This is absolutely a must own for anyone who appreciates sublimely crafted intelligently played music, and especially for anyone who appreciates jazz in the least, though pegging the project as jazz misses the point.

Gil Evans & Laurent Cugny - Big Band Lumiere - Rhythm a Ning (1987) {EmArcy 836 401-2}
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© 1987 EmArcy / PolyGram | 836 401-2
Jazz / Modern Big Band / Progressive Jazz / Contemporary Jazz

This is a very interesting recording. Aging arranger/pianist Gil Evans agreed after much persuasion to come to Paris and play his music at a few concerts with Laurent Cugny's Orchestra. After only one rehearsal, the first event took place, and it gratified Evans to realize that the young French musicians were not only excellent players but big Gil Evans fans. Their interpretations of Thelonious Monk's "Rhythm-A-Ning," "London" and "La Nevada" rank with the best versions of Evans's regular Monday Night Band, and Cugny's "Charlie Mingus' Sound of Love" (an answer to Mingus' "Duke Ellington's Sound of Love") is also excellent. Few of the sidemen, other than tenor-saxophonist Andy Sheppard and percussionist Marilyn Mazur, are known in the U.S., but they did an excellent job of bringing Gil Evans's music to life.