Nancy Nardin

Fred Nardin, the winner of the Prix Django Reinhardt 2016 of the French musician of the year, is a composer, musician, performer and an authentic Jazzman. His last album «Opening» features personal compositions and arrangements, was recorded with Leon Parker, a drummer with whom he has been playing for six years, as well as with Or Bareket, a promising bass player from New York. The terific playing of this Trio, their complicity, musicality and creativity make this album a marvel which ought to be on any jazz lover's shelf and will certainly lead to more successful enjoyable and vibrant albums together. A true sense of swing, groove, bop, with the elegance of the very few.

Winner of the 2016 Prix Django Reinhardt from the Académie du Jazz and nominated for the Victoires de la Musique Jazz award in 2018, the pianist Fred Nardin, who plays with, among others, the Amazing Keystone Big Band and Cécile McLorin Salvant, is one of the great revelations of French Jazz in recent years. The trio’s new album, released in March 2019 on the label Naïve, with Or Bareket and Leon Parker, is proof that high-quality jazz can reach a wide audience, from simple amateurs to the most expert connoisseurs.

Two entire sets brought together on a double live album. A concert in its entirety to enjoy at home to rediscover the closeness and complicity of the musicians on stage and the intimacy of a jazz club in its living room.
This is the new album offered by pianist Fred Nardin, with the Jazz Family label, to celebrate the five years of existence of his trio with his accomplices Or Bareket and Leon Parker to rediscover under a different prism, the time of a concert, the music that composes the two previous albums of their formation: Opening & Look Ahead as well as some unreleased ones.
A new album without artifice or music, mastery, complicity, energy, osmosis and risk-taking are the key words.