Gerard Jippin

Gerard Presencer's recording debut as a leader is very impressive. He's a virtuoso trumpeter but plays flugelhorn throughout this recording with four of the younger virtuosi from the London jazz scene. Here the normal grammar and syntax of jazz are permanently in evidence, the rhythm section of Cleyndert and Stacey is magnificent, and there are are fine solos from the leader, pianist Rebello and guitarist Parricelli.

Fervent lecteur d'Alexandre Dumas et fin connaisseur de la région, Gérard Depardieu refait le périple de l'écrivain au Caucase guidé par le récit de voyage qu"il publia en 1858. Une mise en abyme de deux monstres sacrés…