CD, стоящие на полке рядом : Jazz (Small Orchestra - Contemporary)      

Recording Date: Apr 1996-Mar 1997

All Music Guide

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Improvising means conversing, exchanging, provoking or supporting the creation of others. It means demolishing in order to reconstruct. Creating an ambiguous musical situation. Varying sound colours. Being surprised and finding happiness in the discovery of new prospects. For the drummer, it's an opportunity to leave an excessively comfortable routine, to get away from his role as the beat "supplier", and as the guard the temple of swing which, in the context of contemporary jazz, seem too limited.

In my work as a painter - a necessarily more solitary work - each stroke, each addition of matter modifies the image deeply and encourages me to reconsider the whole.

I wanted to apply this pictorial model of permanent recreation to the jazz trio which I have been familiar with for over forty years. After several experiments in a traditional (piano, bass, drums ; saxophone, double bass ans drums), or more adventurous lineup (violin, organ, drums ; vibraphone, double bass and drums), I felt the need to evolve at the centre of new tringular geometry where the percussionist needs to make up for the absence of a partner (in particular the rhythm section deprived of a double bass or of a keyboard) without for that matter invading the space freed.

I have chosen accompanying musicians who have the same curiosity and the same love of risk. In this attempt to escape from well known territories, to take the listener to places he is not overly familiar with (in all modesty), we have thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. Nothing will satisfy us more than to share this pleasure with you.

- Daniel Humair