libre ensemble
with
Rémi Gaudillat (tpt), Fred Roudet (tpt, tuba), Philippe Gordiani (guit), Fred Meyer (guit)
Benoit Keller (contrebasse), Damien Sabatier (saxs), Bruno Tocanne (dms)
Invited Creation "A Vaulx Jazz Festival"
Russ Johnson (tpt - New York), Michael Bates (double bass - New York)
Samuel Blaser (tbn - Berlin), Quinsin Nachoff (saxs, clar - New York)
This orchestra created for the 10 years of the imuZZic collective, with the musicians among the most active of this one, is in the lineage of the famous engaged workshops of the history of jazz, such as those of Charles Mingus, Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra, Carla Bley's Jazz Composer Orhestra or Art Ensemble of Chicago...
The imuZZic network so pursues the work begun since around ten years on fight and hope songs with the Trio the Resistances and the sextet October or, more recently, with the Bruno Tocanne "new dreams" trio and the Nachoff - Tocanne Project / 5 new dreams, as well as a noticed work on bridges between jazz - improvised musics and pop-rock with the "I.Overdrive trio"...
If we could qualify the inventive musical period of the end of the sixties as "Pop, free and political", it is really in that direction that it is necessary to go to search influence of these musicians: "... Artists hired in a confused world, they give us a direct, approachable music without simplism, free without concession... A succession of pieces which speak about anger, about brotherhood, about hope, about cordiality and about uprising. Of freedom especially... " CITIZEN JAZZ 2009
This orchestra which assumes all these influences with happiness is a collective group not subjected to the absolute dictatorship of a unique leader: each comes here with the ideas, his scores, his sense of playing and his listening of others, to put the music in division, by conjugating (by cultivating) the singular to the plural... A vibrating tribute to the story of jazz in its dimension at the same time the most popular (a certain attachment to the melody) and the most free !
"Remarkable unbridled improvisations... This project exposes once more the determination of these musicians: to play improvised, innovative and independent musics while remaining attached to the melody " CITIZEN JAZZ 2008
