Fusione
Fusione (LP + MP3 & hand-stamped sleeve)

The Cosmic Suite EnsemblePATROL OF THE SATURN EP (7 INCH)

When his mother brought Stanley Turrentine’s Salt Song LP back from a trip to Canada, Julien Lourau, then a teenager, was impressed by the scope of the sound and the groove of the saxophone. He was also charmed by the lush arrangements and funky sound of the record, typical of releases on the CTI label. Created by producer Creed Taylor, CTI left an imprint in the minds of 70s jazz fans much like Blue Note did in the 60s, and it even ended up releasing work by artists who started out on this mythical label such as Stanley Turrentine and Freddie Hubbard. The two even shared the same sound engineer, the great Rudy van Gelder.Yet CTI, though highly prolific during its 15 years of activity, has not benefitted from the same aura as its predecessor.“To breathe life into this album, I listened to a wealth of CTI releases and discovered some I had never heard before. I noticed, oddly, that many of today’s musicians know very little about CTI - a label unfairly considered as minor.”The choice of tracks was determined by Julien’s personal tastes, always keeping in mind a desire to help people discover them yet focusing on the joy of actually playing them too.“The album is made up of 9 pieces. Mathieu Débordes got everything down to the nearest note before we even attempted to play them. CTI didn’t hold back in fuelling their compositions with brass and violins, but I erased this aspect and pared things down to a bass, drums and two keyboards.”English drummer Jim Hart, someone Julien worked with during his London years, propels the group - from hard-bop polyrhythms with “drum & bass” inflections to a reworking of classic Red Clay.Sylvain Daniel on the bass and Arnaud Roulin on the analogue keys are two musicians close to the saxophonist, and that he met when they were students in 1999 while organising a master class at the Conservatoire de Nantes. Since then, they have become his esteemed companions.The collaboration with young pianist Léo Jassef began on this recording, where he also plays the Prophet 5. The dynamic and overlap of the many keyboards played by Arnaud and Léo bring the record a richness of timbre and harmony that the strings and brass provided on the CTI recordings.For the final track on the record, Julien called upon his friend of 30 years, guitarist Bojan Z, for a fresh, Gospel take on Love and Peace, a track recorded by Quincy Jones in 1969, which here, is dedicated to Bojan’s recently departed brother.“When it comes down to it, this album really is as I had imagined it, with, luckily, a few unexpected turns. I created a playlist I then claimed as my own. But in the end, I must admit that I would have loved to have composed some of these tracks.”

Classic ! Fourth or 4 is the group's first all-instrumental album and features a mix of Free Jazz, straight-ahead Jazz, and gong-like psychedelia. It was also the last of their albums to include drummer and founding member Robert Wyatt.

Les fondateurs de Blue Note, Alfred Lion et Francis Wolff, avaient les oreilles et l'esprit ouverts, comme ils l'ont prouvé à maintes reprises au début des années 1960 en enregistrant certains des musiciens les plus aventureux de la scène du jazz moderne, tels qu'Andrew Hill, Eric Dolphy et Tony Williams. Mais ce n'est que lorsqu'ils ont fait venir Ornette Coleman et Don Cherry à Blue Note en 1965 qu'ils ont plongé tête la première dans l'avant-garde. Coleman et Cherry avaient bien sûr marqué l'histoire ensemble quelques années auparavant, en tant que membres du quartet révolutionnaire de Coleman, qui avait fait savoir au monde du jazz de New York qu'il y avait du nouveau en ville lors de leur arrivée au Five Spot Café en 1959. Bien que Cherry ait codirigé l'album The Avant-Garde avec John Coltrane en 1961, sa carrière de chef d'orchestre a débuté avec son audacieux premier album Complete Communion enregistré sur Blue Note en décembre 1965 (Coleman avait enregistré son nouveau trio en direct au Golden Circle de Stockholm pour ses propres débuts sur Blue Note quelques semaines auparavant). Cherry retourne au studio Van Gelder à deux reprises à l'automne 1966, d'abord pour enregistrer sa vaste Symphony for Improvisers, puis pour le fougueux Where Is Brooklyn ? Ce dernier est une session en quartet très interactive avec Pharoah Sanders au saxophone ténor et au piccolo, Henry Grimes à la basse et Ed Blackwell à la batterie, qui présente cinq originaux de Cherry, dont "Awake Nu" et "The Thing".Cette édition Blue Note Classic Vinyl est entièrement analogique, masterisée par Kevin Gray à partir des bandes originales, et pressée sur un vinyle 180g chez Optimal.

Musician, composer, bandleader and musical rubik’s cube, Laurent Bardainne is a saxophonist who trained at The Paris Conservatory.He’s collaborated with Pharrell Williams, Cassius and Philippe Katerine to name just a few and presents here his latest project, ‘Tigre d’eau Douce’ Also co-founder of electro rock band Poni Hoax (Tigersushi Records), Limousine, a duet with Camelia Jordana and more recently Sabrina & Samantha for Ed Banger. This album, sees a return to his first love of jazz, The Tigre d’eau Douce, represents a species doomed to disappear. So using melodies, chants and solos as an escape guide, his tenor saxophone takes us to a higher place,one where John Coltrane and the great figures of jazz reside. These LP tracks bounce between the grooves and soul of the 1970’s, wherepercussion and saxophone pave the way. ‘Marvin’ allows the fluffy keys of the Hammond organ to open out into a pensive melody that feels familiar. Carrying on the journey, the tough asphalt of hip hop is visited on tracks like ‘Bachibouzouk’ and ‘Felin M chant’, whereas more tropical themes are explored on tracks like ‘Kinshasa’.