Michel Portal
Turbulence

To write these few lines, we spoke to saxophonist François Jeanneau, an old friend of Jacques Thollot who also played on several of his albums, including the “Watch Devil Go” which interests us here. He told us a story which, according to him, sums up the personality of Thollot. A noted studio had reserved three days for a Thollot recording session. The first morning was devoted to sound checks and putting some order in the score sheets which Jacques would hand out in a somewhat anarchic manner. Then everyone went for lunch. When the musicians returned to the studio, Thollot had disappeared. He wasn’t seen again for the three days. When he reappeared, he had already forgotten why he had left, The music of Jacques Thollot is in the image of its’ author: it takes you somewhere, suddenly escapes and disappears, returning in an unexpected place as if nothing had happened.Four years after a first album on the Futura label in 1971, Jacques Thollot returned, this time on the Palm label of Jef Gilson, still with just as much surrealist poetry in his jazz. In thirty-five minutes and a few seconds, the French composer and drummer, who had been on the scene since he was thirteen, established himself as a link between Arnold Schoenberg and Don Cherry. Resistant to any imposedframework and always excessive, Thollot allows himself to do anything and everything: suspended time of an extraordinary delicacy, a stealthy explosion of the brass section, hallucinatory improvisation of the synthesisers, tight writing, teetering on the classical, and in the middle of all that, a hit; the title-track - that Madlib would one day end up hearing and sampling.“Watch Devil Go” was in the right place in the Palm catalogue, which welcomed the cream of the French avant-garde in the 70s. But it is also the story of a long friendship between two men. Jacques Thollot and Jef Gilson had known and respected one another for a long time. Though barely sixteen years old, Thollot was already on drums on the first albums by Gilson starting in 1963 and would play in his big band (alongside François Jeanneau once again), ‘Europamerica’, until the end of the 70s.In a career lasting half a century and centred on freedom Jacques Thollot played with the most important experimental musicians (Don Cherry, Sonny Sharrock, Michel Roques, Barney Wilen, Steve Lacy, François Tusques, Michel Portal, Jac Berrocal, Noël Akchoté...) and they all heard in him a pulsation coming from another world.Jérôme "Kalcha" Simonneau

Un des premiers enregistrement de Sclavis, pièces en solo avec quelques fulgurances de percussion... Klezmer Fusion !

Beautiful canadian modal jazz ! Original 12" vinyl LP pressing of the Atlantis Jazz Ensemble's debut album.

LIVEpar Angel Bat Dawid & Tha Brothahood Partager / Intégrer Liste de souhaitsapprécié pardeeps eliade thumbnaildeeps eliade considering getting the letters.P U N K J A Z Z tattooed across my heart angel bat dawid righteously reflects and resonates hard with the state of a world where black people are hunted by the people that are supposed to look out for us all. if I was in that audience I would of joined the fuck in.Leon Frey thumbnailLeon Frey Angel Bat Dawid is making history.jaymowil thumbnailjaymowil This performance is special. Next level Nina Simone shit. 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If you would like to receive in-stock titles sooner please place a separate order for those items.Comprend l’écoute en continu illimitée de LIVE au moyen de l’appli gratuite de Bandcamp, ainsi que le téléchargement de haute qualité aux formats MP3, FLAC et plus.expédition prévue vers le 2 mai 2021Acheter le disque/vinyle $31 USD ou plus Donner en cadeau IMRC0037 - CDDisque compact (CD) + album numériquepackage image package imageShiny compact disk in deluxe 6-panel digipack.***PLEASE NOTE*** Multiple item orders that contain this pre-order won't ship until this title is in stock. If you would like to receive in-stock titles sooner please place a separate order for those items.Comprend l’écoute en continu illimitée de LIVE au moyen de l’appli gratuite de Bandcamp, ainsi que le téléchargement de haute qualité aux formats MP3, FLAC et plus.sera expédié d’ici 7 joursAcheter le disque compact $13 USD ou plus Donner en cadeau Album numériqueÉcoute en continu + téléchargementComprend l’écoute en continu illimitée au moyen de l’appli gratuite de Bandcamp, ainsi que le téléchargement de haute qualité aux formats MP3, FLAC et plus.Acheter l’album numérique $9 USD ou plusDonner en cadeau IMRC0037 - FIRE & BRIMSTONE color vinyl gatefold double LPDisque/vinyle + album numériquepackage image package imageTwo *limited edition* 140-gram FIRE and BRIMSTONE color vinyl LPs (pressed by Pallas in Germany) inside a heavyweight reverse-board *gatefold jacket* with flooded black pockets, IARC obi strip and dome-patterned inner-sleeves.Comprend l’écoute en continu illimitée de LIVE au moyen de l’appli gratuite de Bandcamp, ainsi que le téléchargement de haute qualité aux formats MP3, FLAC et plus.Épuisé1.Enlightenment 03:222.Destination 02:463.Capetown 00:254.Black Family 09:385.What Shall I Tell My Children Who Are Black 04:596.London 09:587.We Hearby Declare the African Look 09:178.We Are Starzz 14:139.VIKTORious Return 01:0410.Tha Wicked Shall Not Prevail 06:5311.Melo Deez From Heab'N 04:4212.Dr. Wattz n' em 08:1413.HELL 03:31à proposLIVE was mostly recorded on November 1st, 2019, at Haus der Berliner Festspiele in Berlin, Germany, during the 2019 edition of JazzFest Berlin. For Angel Bat Dawid and her band Tha Brothahood – which includes Deacon Otis Cooke, Viktor Le Givens, Xristian Espinoza, Norman W. Long, Dr. Adam Zanolini, and Asher Simiso Gamedze – it was the first stop of their first European tour.Forty-eight hours before the show, Angel and members of the band were on their way to the airport in Chicago when they received news that Viktor Le Givens had passed out on the street and subsequently woke up in a hospital with all his personal belongings missing. When they arrived in Berlin, the band’s manager Najee-Zaid Searcy reached out to the production staff of JazzFest Berlin to inform them of the situation. Their initial reply: “if you cannot find a substitute, we will have to reduce your fee.”

22a presents a collaborative project with the Polish jazz septet EABS and featuring Tenderlonious on flute and soprano saxophone. Strictly limited to 1000 copies worldwide, this 12" of deep jazz is housed in colour sleeve and includes an insert containing sleeve notes and photos.

London-based keyboardist/producer Dan Nicholls (of Y-OTIS) introduces a new album project ‘Mattering And Meaning’ to be released by We Jazz Records on August 13th. Nicholls' music uses acoustic piano as its key element, transporting the instrument into new territories that sound remarkably natural and organic, whilst displaying a strong kinship with the world of abstract electronic music. The music utilises piano loops and field recordings as its key elements, forming what might be described on the surface as a fascinating ambient jazz record – but at the same time there's so much more at play here on deeper levels. Dan's music sounds at once otherworldly and immensely inviting.After years of unlearning and unravelling the knots of a music college education – moving from a career in jazz, via electronic music, to a heartfelt embrace with rave culture and the feminist and queer theories which have so challenged perspectives across many disciplines on the objectified world and the values of capitalism – Dan Nicholls has spontaneously reimagined his relationship to the piano, that edifice of the decaying foundations of european classical music.