Awaiting Ship

Description

This new adventure in the world of jazz, improvised music within a given framework, as some like to define it, could have been titled "Saying goodbye to the old world," as this idea occupied my inspirations during the creation of the themes I proposed to Dan Schnelle and Alex Boneham. After composing most of this music, I wanted to see for myself, feel, and try to understand what could have driven so many artists to live and create in Los Angeles. I believe it is the light. This part of the world is bathed most of the time in an intense, reassuring, and inspiring light. And it was there that I met Dan and Alex, in a jazz club that warmly and simply welcomes musicians from around the world every evening: the bluewhale. The music there is mixed, blending swing, European classical melodies, African rhythms, and Latin accents. To this crush on these two talented young "cats," I wanted to add to "enhance" our trio of inspired guests, trumpeter Sylvain Gontard and a string quartet created for this occasion by Akemi Fillon with Miwa Rosso, Yoko Levy-Kobayashi, and Camille Borsarello. Finally, our long-time friend, Helik Hadar, came from Israel to capture these emotions and infuse his sound color. The simple listing of all these last names from the four corners of the world to share this moment of creation gives this project the essence I had imagined.