Daniel Humair had his first contact with the drum in a Geneva fanfare at the age of 7 years. At the age of 14, he...

Daniel Humair had his first contact with the drum in a Geneva fanfare at the age of 7 years. At the age of 14, he became passionate about the New Orleans Jazz and became part of several amateur groups, soon discovered modern jazz and became a professional musician after winning the first prize in three categories at the Zurich amateur festival in 1955. Afterward, he spent several years performing and traveling in Switzerland, Belgium, Sweden and Germany. This new release, Modern Art, is an invitation to discover new ideas. The pieces of music by Vincent Le Quang, Stephanie Kerecki, and Humair himself are not to be thought of as tributes. Humair prefers to think of them in terms of correspondences, parallel ideas, encounters, affinities and out of the ordinary phenomena. They have chosen several 20th century painters to give them one of two possibilities: either they already had a composition in their pack that matched up with the pictorial world of a certain artist, or they’ve written an original composition inspired by an artist’s work. This release is truly a unique take on the connection between music and the visual arts.