The Affair

They recount their impressions to the Interviewer. They met through a magazine ad, She and He. They corresponded through the Internet. He responded to her ad seeking someone to fulfil her fantasy for "a pornographic affair". This is their first meeting in a Paris café. He's a little reticent. She wants to know whether or not he's hairy. (He is; he's Spanish.) They retire to a nearby hotel room. The door of the room closes. Unseen, the affair is consummated… They continue to see one another regularly each week. They find they get along well together. Soon she suggests that they try normal sex the next time…

After MJA's impressive first eponymous album, they return with an elegant second album on INFRACom! Bruno Hovart, the main brain behind the groove of MJA and the astonishing Mr Day, channelling his angelic voice and soulful phrases, remain together more than ever in complicity with the trumpet master Stephane Ronget and pianist Benjamin Devigne. Olivier Granget, tenor saxophone and the Real Fake MC also appears on it.
Light and subtle, MJA gives birth to a springtime jazz. Crystallized with the insets of Hard Bop, stirred with US soul, flirting with hip-hop, this project brings jazz back to the hip-shaking dancefloor (Escapism). Like in the 60's, when Cannonball "Buckshot LeFonque" Adderley liked to see jazz get down, get up and sweat. The "Affair" has always had this frightening effectiveness.