Petit Petit

Ping Machine - Encore - Live Au Petit Faucheux (2013) {Neuklang Records NCD4072}
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© 2013 Neuklang Records | NCD4072
Jazz / Contemporary Jazz / Modern Big Band

Realizing his new album ENCORE live at the Petit Faucheux on 22 & 23 March 2013, Ping Machine is betting live music: raw, passionate and uncompromising. At the head of this great set of 15 musicians, Frédéric Maurin says its risk appetite and unveils new licked compositions on stage, demanding all of twists and nuances. The musicians play on the wire and excel on these bespoke writing scores. Facing the audience, the material appears in this its most savage and more urgent. Pleasure, sharing and emotion is perceived.

Philippe Petit - Guitar Reflections (1991) {EPM Musique 982262}
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© 1991 EPM Musique | 982262
Jazz / Contemporary Jazz / Guitar

Petit plays a real solid, soulful jazz style, in many ways like Wes Montgomery. Frankly, however, some of Petit's solos just sound better than Wes's. I don't have the liner notes in front of me, but listening to it, I think the tracks are mostly his own rhythm and solos laid on top of each other. This makes for a surprisingly full sound. If you're a fan of good jazz guitar, this CD will make a great addition to your collection. It's quite accessible, never disappointing or cheesy, and for a CD that doesn't have driving rhythm section it really gets your foot tapping.

Michaël Levinas - Le Petit Prince - Orchestre de Picardie, Arie van Beek (2017) {Claves Records}
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© 2017 Claves Records
Classical / Modern Classical / 21st Century / Opera

World Premiere Recording. Born in Paris, Michael Levinas went through the classical and high level teaching of the National Superior Conservatory of Paris, working at the same time with the famous class of accompaniment, orchestra conducting and composing. In that institution he met the great musicians who made the deepest impression on him, in particular, the pianists Vlado Perlemuter, Yvonne Lefébure, and also Yvonne Loriod to whom he showed his first works.

Barney Wilen & Philippe Petit - Flashback (1986) {Paris Jazz Corner PJCP222012 rel 2003}
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© 1986, 2003 Paris Jazz Corner PJCP 222012
Jazz / Cool Jazz / Contemporary Jazz / Guitar / Saxophone

Unissued live by Barney Wilen and Philippe Petit. While waiting for 'La Note Bleue'… it is in July 1986, in Montpellier, France, that Barney Wilen, the legendary French saxophonist, and Philippe Petit, a virtuoso too seldom heard on the jazz scene, occurred for a concert in duet. Extremely rare experiment in jazz, this guitare/saxophone live recording proceeds in the wire of a collaboration which started between the two musicians since 1984. Essential.

Le disque qui occupe cette page est à l'image de certains bijoux qui compensent leur faible taille par l'intensité de leur éclat. En effet, si les transcriptions étaient, à une époque, très populaires, elles n'ont que rarement égalé en notoriété les pièces auxquelles elles se rapportaient. Cela dit, quelques compositeurs parmi les plus grands du XVIIIe siècle se sont frottés avec bonheur à cette forme musicale qui, bien que revendiquant la liberté, ne trouve son salut que dans le respect des oeuvres dont elle s'inspire.

The decision as to where the borders of music lie can only be determined by the work of composers, who are always trying to make understandable that which is incomprehensible, to turn chaos into order, to encompass that which has no borders: an impulse of the human spirit since the beginning." (Bernd Alois Zimmermann, 1956) The present CD brings three pieces of occasional music (the miniature ballet "Un petit rien", the Music for a Puppet Theater, "Das Gelb und das Grün" [The Yellow and the Green], and the film music "Metamorphose" [Metamorphosis]) together with the composition which laid the groundwork for the "linguistic compositions" of Zimmermann's Late Period: the highly serialized cantata "Omnia tempus habent.

The late Tal Farlow was never recorded often enough during his career, so the appearance of this duo date with the French guitarist Philippe Petit is a welcome addition to his discography. Although a generation apart in age, the two players mesh rather well, with the two of them alternating between lead and rhythm on well-crafted versions of favorite standards such as "Autumn Leaves," "Body and Soul," and "Tenderly." This CD should greatly appeal to fans of bop guitar. (CD Universe).

Joseph Boismortier (1689-1755) may be well represented on disc but it’s fair to say that his name rarely sets the pulse truly racing. In fact, although on the face of it he shares a huge amount in common with his German contemporary Georg Philipp Telemann, it’s hard to picture a world in which a Boismortier anniversary would be celebrated with as much enthusiasm as Telemann’s 250th is currently being.