Ribot

François Poitou est contrebassiste de jazz mais aussi compositeur et arrangeur. Pour son premier projet en leader, il a monté un groupe assez original sans batteur. Un quintet violon, alto, guitare, saxophone et contrebasse donc. Pour le disque, un second violon vient compléter la formation. Huit compositions et une reprise de Matthieu Chédid pour un répertoire étonnant, inclassable mais extrêmement goûteux et audacieux. Les cordes tissent une trame assez douce (parfois en pizzicati) que le saxophone ou la clarinette basse ponctue tantôt allègrement, tantôt délicatement. Poitou et sa contrebasse assurant la pulsation. Mais l’album vaut beaucoup par le jeu littéralement envoûtant de Federico Casagrande à la guitare. De la musique de chambre contemporaine qui swingue, qui groove cela pourrait fort bien s’appeler du jazz.

McCoy Tyner - Guitars (2008)
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Jazz / Post-Bop / Modern Creative

This recording is a studio throw-down with 5 of popular music's most accomplished string specialists: Derek Trucks, Bela Fleck, Bill Frisell, John Scofield, and Marc Ribot. The song stack covers the old and new. McCoy finds common ground alongside na group of handpicked guitar and banjo players. It's a meeting of the generations.
One of the most important and enduring jazz pianists emerging from the 1960s, McCoy Tyner needs little introduction. John Coltrane's former sideman's style has always mixed melody, beauty, invention, and volatility. GUITARS is proof he's lost none of his edge. Here, Tyner mixes it up with a seemingly disparate range of guitarists (and one banjoist!), which might shock some old-school fans. Each guitarist joins Tyner's trio for two or three tracks. Marc Ribot's jazz-informed thorniness, John Scofield's plump-toned йlan, Bela Fleck's down-home sophistication and clarity, Derek Trucks's tightly wound blue-tones, and Bill Frisell's mystic, Jim Hall-inspired poetry–all meet Tyner on his own turf. Each string-bender is pushed to be his best in this setting.

McCoy Tyner - Guitars (2008) {CD+DVD Set, Half Note HN 4537}
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Jazz / Post Bop / Piano / Guitar

''I've never done anything like this before'' McCoy Tyner recently said of his second album on McCoy Tyner Music/Half Note Records, a CD/DVD titled GUITARS. Along with a trio of Ron Carter and Jack DeJohnette, Tyner invited guitarists Bill Frisell, Derek Trucks, John Scofield, Marc Ribot, and banjoist Bela Fleck for the studio recording and DVD shoot, scheduled for a September 23 release. ''It was great, and each guy had his own concept and own sound which is very, very important on any instrument, '' said Tyner, ''You know, I look for that, the individual sound and concept.''

Dave Liebman & Lewis Porter - Surreality (2012) {Enja}
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Jazz / Modern Creative / Saxophone

David Liebman is considered a renaissance man in contemporary music with a career stretching over forty years. He has played with many of the masters including Miles Davis, Chick Corea, John McLaughlin and others; what makes "Surreality" different from his many other releases is intensity created by the meeting with Marc Ribot, Brad Jones, Chad Taylor and Lewis Porter. Uncompromising tribute to the masters.

John Zorn has long maintained that Masada is more a collection of songs than a band, and he's asked a bunch of friends for their interpretations as part of Masada's tenth anniversary, the first release being Masada Guitars. Those expecting an electric romp through the Masada songbook might be disappointed; Masada Guitars consists entirely of solo, mostly acoustic performances. Preconceptions aside, this is a beautiful album. Marc Ribot, Bill Frisell, and Tim Sparks each bring their own voice to these tunes: Sparks with his rich fingerpicking, Ribot coming from his classical guitar background, and Bill Frisell with his unmistakable ethereal tone. The performances are closer to the Circle Maker or Bar Kokhba recordings than the "Masada Band" proper – beautiful readings, generally without the pyrotechnics the band can produce even on a slower tune.