Troubadours Sylvain Rifflet
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Album-Release:
2020
HRA-Release:
08.04.2020
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- 1 Sordello (Da Goito) 03:07
- 2 Eble (De Ventadour) 03:38
- 3 Alberico (Da Romano) 04:51
- 4 Beatrice (De Die) 04:52
- 5 Na (De Casteldoza) 03:15
- 6 Le Murmure 05:36
- 7 I Vo Bene 02:22
- 8 Bertran (De Born) 03:46
- 9 Azalais (De Porcairagues) 04:44
- 10 The Peacocks 08:57
Info for Troubadours
Klassich ausgebildet und mit einem Diplom-Abschluss an der Conservatoire National de Musique de Paris gilt SYLVAIN RIFFLET als Vorreiter der jungen Generation von Jazzmusikern aus dem ersten Jahrzehnt des 21. Jahrhunderts. Er hat mit jenen zusammengearbeitet, die heute an der Spitze der europäischen „neuen Szene“ stehen: VERNERI POHJOLA, AIRELLE BESSON, THOMAS DE POURQUERY oder ALBAN DARCHE.
Bereits 2002 erhielt er im Absolventenwettbewerb des Konservatoriums von La Defense den ersten Preis im Bereich Jazz und veröffentlichte wenig später sein Debüt-Album „Roses and Roots“ zusammen mit JOEY BARON. In der Zwischenzeit machte er sich als Komponist und Musiker für unzählige Interpreten sowohl im Studio als auch auf der Bühne europaweit einen Namen und widmet sich seit 2017 wieder zunehmend sich selbst. Sein neues Werk lässt sich der repetitiven und minimalistisch geprägten Jazz-Musik zuordnen und ist eine abwechslungsreiche Mischung aus Improvisation, andauernder Wiederholung, plötzlichem Bruch und entwickelt sich sogar in Trance-ähnliche Richtungen.
Sylvain Rifflet, Tenorsaxophon, Klarinette
Benjamin Flament, Percussion
Verneri Pohjola, Trompete
Sandrine Marchetti, Harmonium
Sylvain Rifflet
Ever since he was a teenager and his discovery of Stan Getz‘ legendary album Focus, Sylvain Rifflet had dreams of making a record that would revisit the same format, and give new impetus to the saxophonist’s very successful blend of classics and jazz. It was an ambitious project, but also an opportunity which Verve has now provided.
Steeped in the spirit and methods of the album that Verve originally released in 1961, Sylvain Rifflet presents us with Re-Focus: a rewriting of Focus, a tribute to two elders he admires, and simultaneously a faithful reflection of Rifflet’s own universe. A new ambitious step in Rifflet’s musical career which affirms his genius.
In 1961 with Focus, composer Eddie Sauter has written his name into the “great classical composers” tradition, when he proposed a kind of “real” concerto except that, jazz oblige, the part that fell to soloist Stan Getz, who had commissioned the piece, was not only performed by him, it was improvised.
The 20th century was marked by a new rivalry between, on the one hand, written scores (to which the majority of classical composers continue to have recourse), and on the other hand, recordings (that particular process whereby improvisers leave a trace of their work for future generations). The two approaches, which are in no way contradictory, were reconciled when Focus appeared in 1961. The marriage between stave and disc, classics and jazz, paper transcriptions and what philosopher and cultural critic Walter Benjamin called “mechanical reproduction” couldn’t fail to fascinate Sylvain Rifflet, laureate of the 2016 “Victoire de la Musique” for his album Mechanics. To date, Sylvain continues to defend the influence of classical music on his work.
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