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Cellar of miracles, architect's hell
Modern jazz with
Heartland and getting back to roots with the Savoy Jazz Club
with the William Chabbey trio who blows a good musical wind that couldn't fill
the sails of the play "la marche de l'architecte.''
This week, a rich jazz program
satisfied all tastes and all musical schools:
from the old school to contemporary styles.
And then to the other extreme -- a disappointing piece of theatre concludes a
contrasting performance.
In the cellar of the miracles
If you went out this week, it had to be Friday evening at the Savoy Jazz Club for one truly magic moment.
With light-years of pedantry and
elitism, this modest cellar can at the same time create an invaluable, cordial
environment, intimate and open to all.
Authentic musicians for delightful music: William Chabbey follows the style of
his influence, the guitarist Wes Montgomery, but doesn't stop at just copying
him; he enriches an already vast inheritance by personal work and a true talent
with his compositions on several registers: traditional jazz but also bossa,
blues and cool.
His partners do not just accompany him, but appear quite as important as their
leader:
the Brazilian Carlos Werneck, astonishing on the bass, mixes his pleasant play
with subtle singing whose source we sometimes we can no longer distinguish:
musician or instrument?
And finally, the drummer Charles
Bénaroche, resulting from the variety (Voulzy, Mitchell in particular) shows a
talents which his reaches the highs of this partners.
William Chabbey, who never pursued the "having it right" of jazz, has recently
won recognition; the just reward for a trio which distilled without doing away
with swing and happiness.
To discover and rediscover with the CD "Jazz horizons" edited by DOM
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