Blues In the Air (2022)
Track Listing:
- Blues Dans les Blues
- Polka Dot Stomp
- Southern Sunset
- Dans les Rues d'Antibes
- What a Dream
- Si Tu Vois Ma Mère
- Lastic
- Blues In the Air
- Girl's Dance
- This Is That Tomorrow I Dreaded Yesterday
- Ghost of the Blues
Total Time: 58min
About This Music:
Most artists who make a Bechet-centric recording either "celebrate" Bechet's personal sound and style or use his music to showcase their own aesthetic vision. For "Blues In the Air", I wanted something different. I wanted a project that simply showcases Bechet's compositions in a personal way.
Our chamber-jazz setting of Bechet's songs strives to be contemporary, yet I carefully chose players who share my respect for the tradition as well as a disciplined focus on respecting and empowering the style-specific vocabulary that underpins Bechet's music. This means not treating swing and blues as old-fashioned, but as the strategies that made Bechet's musical identity possible.
Album Info:
Release Date: March, 2022
Evan Christopher, clarinet
Malo Maurizié, trumpet
Félix Hunot, guitar
Sébastien Girardot, bass
Guillaume Nouaux, drums
Recorded, Mixed & Mastered by Julien Basséres at Studio de Meudon (Paris, France)
CD production by Evan Christopher and Michel Stochitch for Camille Productions