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Concerts

01/12/10 in Toulon, Studio 11, w/ Julien Lourau Saïgon
01/14/10 in Marseille, Cri du Port, w/ Julien Lourau Saïgon
01/29/10 at Prisme in Elencourt w/ Pierrick Pedron Omry
02/08-09/10 at Vortex in London w/ Julien Lourau Saïgon
03/05/10 in Rennes w/ Pierrick Pedron Omry
03/12/10 in St Malo w/ Pierrick Pedron
03/31/10 in Schiltigheim w/ Julien Lourau
04/02-03/10 in Paris, Sunside, w/ Miguel Zenon Rayuela
Dana Leong (cello and trombone) and Dan Weiss (percussion)
04/15/10 in Alger w/ Julien Lourau
04/20-23/10 at Sunside, Paris w/ Julien Lourau
04/24/10 in Metz w/ Julien Lourau
05/21/10 in Angers (Chavagnes-les-Eaux) with the Blowing Trio
w/ Olivier Zanot (alto) and David Prez (tenor)
05/22/10 at Radio France (Jazz sur le vif) with Julien Lourau Saigon
05/30/10 at Bath Music Fest, UK, w/ Julien Lourau

Miguel Zenón Rayuela

I have the great pleasure to be part of Miguel Zenón's new project Rayuela for which he obtained the CMA FACE grant from Chamber America.

Rayuela is the title of the amazing novel by Argentinean author Julio Cortazar that takes place both in Paris and in Buenos Aires. Miguel suggested that we should work on the book and its sophisticated characters as an inspiration for our writting. We both agreed that I would write music based on the Argentinean part as he would focus on the Parisian part.

This new music will be played for the first time in Paris, at the Sunside Jazz club, April 2nd and 3rd, with an atypical quartet featuring cello and trombone player Dana Leong and percussion and tabla master Dan Weiss. We will bring this music in the United States before the summer. More information about these American gigs will be posted soon.

Before these shows, you can listen to a Live version of Miguel's Esta Plena below, composition featured in his latest album that just received two Grammy Awards Nominations (Esta Plena, Marsalis Music). This track was recorded live at Ronnie Scott's, in London, in November 2009 where Miguel was invited by the London Jazz Festival. That night I was subbing for his long-time partner pianist Luis Perdomo who could not get a visa on time. Hans Glawischnig is playing bass, Henry Cole is on drums.

Esta Plena

Eight Fragments of Summer

The new quartet album is now available in the US on Emusic and Itunes. You can also buy it HERE (it will be shipped to you from France), listen to three full tracks on my Myspace page, or check out the new review by Mark F. Turner on Allaboutjazz.com, or the schizophrenic one at Chris Kelsey's blog, who offers a really cleaver, funny, and refreshing approach...

It was recorded in September 2008 after an intense New York summer where I got back making music with former mates who recorded Like A Tree in the City some six years ago ; tenor sax Jérôme Sabbagh and drummer Damion Reid. Together along with young bass player Joe Sanders, we worked on a new repertoire specifically written for this band.

These eight new compositions summarize these years of inspiration, work and friendship with these amazing musicians. May these fragments put together make a warm and long-lasting season.

Chasing Shadows

Julien Lourau Saigon

After more than two years of work, concerts, and traveling together, Julien's project finally sees the light with the release of Saigon at the end of September on label Naïve. Recorded at Studio La Buissonne by Gerard de Haro in December 2008, it features Thomas Brasserie on acoustic bass and Otis Brown III on drums.

It all started when Julien called me to go to Haiti for a week of concerts, six months after he visited us in NY (I was sharing an apartment in Harlem with Thomas at the time). This amazing trip marked the start of a fruitful collaboration.

We have more than one thing in common though ; same age, same number of album as a leader-composer, and a career that often cross-pathed over the course of the past twenty years.

For all these reasons, it was also natural that we would both write original music for this quartet. As a result, the new album features four new originals by Julien, and five by myself. The band will be on the road soon, starting October in Vernouillet (2), in Paris at La Cigalle (7) and in Perpignan (23).

Nico

A new kind of gro(o)ve

After almost 10 years with label Cristal, I'm proud to announce the birth of 88TREES, my own label. The new quartet album entitled Eight Fragments Of Summer will be available (physically and digitally online) in April 2009 on 88TREES, as well as Verstatile, Blowing Trio Live at the Duc, Like A Tree In The City, and Spinnin'. Only the second Blowing Trio recording The Thing To Share remains on Cristal. Why ? Because that's the only one I didn't produced. More soon...