Dive into the heart of Raphael Imbert and his quartet's musical universe with this captivating album recorded live in the legendary Parisian jazz and electro venue la Gare - le Gore. You'll hear the quartet's virtuosity and creativity in their own heady blues Ecosystem of Citybirds, the evocative Adelphi Street and the musing La Dame a la licorne. Each track invites you on a musical journey, from the emotional reunion of I'll be seeing you to the deep nuances of Japanese Sketch and Kadidja. Raphael Imbert and his quartet show how intense live performance can be when it's driven by their own music, the inspiration of the moment and their interaction with the audience.

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Three generations of top Swiss jazz musicians from three different parts of the country, Daniel Humair, Samuel Blaser and Heiri K�nzig, form a new trio that promises to stimulate the interest of both music lovers and curious listeners. The title of the album, 1291, is a nod to the Federal Charter, one of the earliest Swiss constitutional documents that eventually became the founding text of Switzerland. Daniel Humair sculpts the tempo on drums just as he paints his pictures. Inventive and attentive to the interaction between his companions, he produces playing in which finesse and energy alternate. Samuel Blaser, who is first and foremost a melodist, is an important, relatively new voice on his instrument who has already distinguished himself as a mature yet curious bandleader and composer. Heiri K�nzig is better-known on the international jazz scene than to the Swiss public. His humble attitude and musical talent are extremely convincing. Blaser's robust tone and wide-ranging improvisation are framed by the organic tumult of the interlocking rhythms of K�nzig and Humair. From breath, strings and sticks, slides, wood and skins, an alchemy is born which, through inspiration and creativity, transforms the sound into moments of pure poetry.

With Nuances, pianist Jeremy Hababou gives us an album of stripped-down, sometimes minimalist, pieces, the reflection of an aesthetic profoundly rooted in his personality. As he likes to say, 'technical mastery of an instrument does not suffice for becoming an artist. Being an artist precedes artistic discipline. Above all, it is a necessity, a sensibility, another way of looking at the world, a quest.' Whilst his approach and compositions are inspired by literature, poetry, the visual arts, and philosophy, Jeremy Hababou also borrows from the classical repertoire. These references are perceptible throughout his work, even though they take varied forms of expression. Travel constitutes a common theme in his progression, attesting to a constant need for sharing, exchanging, feelings and emotions. The mixtures of rhythms and colors present throughout the album are so many invitations to 'go further' and discover an unknown made up of surprises and astonishments.

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Everything Oddjob undertakes turns to gold; an observation that has resulted, since 2002, in three Grammy Awards, a Manifest Galan Music Award and a Grand Prix de l'Acad�mie Charles Cros, rewarding five of the ten albums the group has released over the last twenty years. After the release of three thematic albums, this tenth recording, Kong, brings together for the first time in ten years the original compositions of the five members of the collective founded in 1997. The artists mold atmospheric music, allowing each individual personality to emerge while maintaining an implacable group dynamic. Smart grooves and incursions into electronics give this recording a sonic texture as rich as it is creative, as delicate as it is multifaceted, brushing against mysteriously captivating landscapes. But it is also and above all the unique working method, on the borderline between science and jazz, between rock and contemporary music, capable of organizing it's sound with an almost mathematical approach, that marks out this quintet as one of the most audacious combos on the Scandinavian jazz scene.

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German pianist Joachim K�hn could have had a career in classical music had he not developed an enthusiasm for jazz under the influence of his older brother, clarinetist Rolf K�hn. After leaving his natal Leipzig, then still under communist yoke, the young Bach fan arrived in Paris in 1968 in the midst of the free jazz movement. His meetings with Don Cherry, Aldo Romano, Gato Barbieri, Archie Shepp, and Roswell Rudd were determining. Transcending borders, he alternated between duos with Ornette Coleman, encounters with young classical pianist Michael Wollny, and the Mediterranean trio he formed with Ramon Lopez and Majid Bekkas. On Free Ibiza, this key figure of the European jazz scene lays bare the qualities that were already obvious on his first solo recording from 1971. Romantic, passionate, introspective, and sometimes demonstrative, Joachim K�hn manages to attain a kind of serenity his Ibiza is not that of DJs and high-level decibels.

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The Labtrio is made up of three young musicians with strong personalities, endowed with an approach to music as fresh as it is adventurous. Since the trio's founding in 2007, awards and other prizes (including a superb double - the Audience Prize and Grand Prize - at the prestigious Avignon Tremplin Jazz festival in 2011) have constantly reinforced the evolution of a group that is both deeply rooted in the great tradition of the jazz piano trio and attuned to current musical styles. The result of these skillfully proportioned mixtures is an original music in which numerous ingredients are perceptible, always subtly blended. The trio's very acoustic universe conceals an urban jazz that flirts with underground and hip-hop cultures. Their first opus, Fluxus constitutes testimony to what is the jazz of today, seen by this new generation of musicians. These three will be some of tomorrow's great masters.

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