MORNING LIST
The Musics section team offers you a selection of albums that have been appreciated and reviewed on our pages or on our site during the last weeks of 2021. Or, in the order of their marketing from the end of November to December: the re-creation of the album Africa Brass saxophonist John Coltrane by the Dal Sasso Big Band; the somber nonchalance and racy fluidity of Magon in his third solo album, in the footsteps of the Velvet Underground; the first album of the trio of singer-songwriters and musicians Las Lloronas, a world woven of sweetness where languages come together (Spanish, French, English, Hebrew, Arabic…); a new start for Kevin Whelan, co-founder of The Wrens, an alternative rock band from New Jersey, now at the head of Aeon Station; finally, among the many boxes sold for the holidays, the one dedicated to Jeanne Moreau, to (re) discover the actress as a singer.
« John Coltrane’s Africa Brass Revisited », du Dal Sasso Big Band
After the adaptation for big band of Love Supreme by John Coltrane, in 2014, it is another record of the American saxophonist that the flautist, composer, arranger and conductor Christophe Dal Sasso addresses, Africa/Brass, published in September 1961. Africa and Blues Minor by Coltrane and the traditional English Greensleeves are played by Coltrane, McCoy Tyner, piano, Reggie Workman, double bass, Elvin Jones, drums, with a wind ensemble (English horns, tubas are very present), arranged by Eric Dolphy and partly by Tyner.
Difficult to “revisit”, as the title says, the original already abounding once more in great formation. The bet is globally successful by the writing which gives other instruments the ensemble parts, variations, the strength of the solo parts, the addition during this concert at “Jazz à la Villette”, September 11, 2020 , other themes, including an epic Tunji inaugural, Song of The Underground Railroad, recorded by Coltrane during theAfrica/Brass, and a delicate, airy version of one of Coltrane’s most beautiful melodies, Naima. Sylvain Siclier
1 CD Jazz & People/ PIAS (released November 26, 2021).
« In The Blue », de Magon
More than half a century following its commercial failure, the Velvet Underground continues to permeate countless descendants. The dark nonchalance and the racy fluidity of In The Blue, Magon’s third solo album, assuming the legacy of Pale Blue Eyes, Sweet Jane and Rock’n’Roll. Originally from Tel Aviv, settled in France since the end of the 2000s, this singer and guitarist first became known in the mixed duo Charlotte & Magon, with a beautiful pop clarity. With more rock tension in his first two solo opus (Out in the Dark, in 2019, Hour After Hour, early 2021), he emphasizes here the recurring influence of Lou Reed by refining his writing in favor of a phlegmatic elegance with six tapered strings.
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