Guillaume Mussot

Christian Escoudé is part of this small family of jazz guitarists from the gypsy milieu, his talent has allowed him to play with the greatest as Mc Laughlin, Martial Solal, John Lewis. Some unpublished notes of the music of Django Reinhardt found in the family attic are at the origin of the idea of ​​this album. We discover tracks composed by Django, which have never been recorded or never played associated with compositions by Christian Escoudé and lyrics written by the singer Stephy Haik. Here is a new original album dedicated to the work of the great Django Reinhardt.

Tre Fontane, an ensemble of young performing musicians from Southern France, land of the troubadours, whose music they have explored extensively, have devoted the present recording to the major French Ars Nova composer Guillaume de Machaut, and leading Italian composers of the trecento, using the Codex Faenza as a central reference. Most of the time they remain fairly close to the Faenza variations on the vocal originals, with occasional extemporization.

'Classical and jazz music are my two'musical lands that I ve been striding along the boundaries for a long time. The Concerto for piano in which the soloist improvises beside a symphony orchestra represents a decisive step in my career. This album is dedicated to the pianist Brigitte Engerer with whom I had the honour to collaborate with for 4 years and who remains a living source of inspiration and enthusiasm.' Guillaume de Chassy After 9 albums to his credit, Traversées is the first symphonic album of Guillaume de Chassy. Recorded in the mythical studio La Chaux-de-Fonds in Switzerland, it s composed of two parts…