Akagera

Description

Trio of Freedom! In 1980, the trio of Daniel Humair, François Jeanneau and Texier recorded this album originally intended to illustrate a wildlife documentary. They did not know that Akagera would become one of the founding moments of an aesthetic and an ethic of French Jazz! 40 years later, it remains a model of the genre. First of all, the instrumentation (sax / bass / drums) was already unusual at the time, then the creative power of a trio in which each musician finds a central place, very far from a simple rhythm section accompanying a soloist. Finally, the three musicians are also composers and each contributes by bringing original themes, open to all winds, tinged with Africa and savannas, modal and mysterious world music, inexhaustible subjects for unbridled improvisation. In two words: taste and freedom!