{"product_id":"leon-phal_stress-killer-edition-deluxe_2024_son","title":"Stress Killer (Edition Deluxe)","description":"After the success of his summer tour and a shower of awards, the French jazz tenor re-releases his album Stress Killer in an expanded edition including 4 unreleased tracks, in CD format and 180g double vinyl.A lot has happened since the release of Stress Killer exactly one year ago: with the New French Touch project that toured the Smac venues of France or his 70-date tour across Europe, North and South America, the Franco-Swiss saxophonist never stops rebuilding his audience by bringing jazz where it is least expected. It is a bit of this journey, these influences, and these encounters that he shares in this expanded edition. A desire to complete the voyage and extend the spectrum of his ever-evolving jazz.Heir to a certain academicism, a graduate of the Conservatory and the Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne, Léon Phal's music is nonetheless far from being limited to the classics. On the contrary, and in the image of his reinterpretation of Coltrane's \"Naïma\" from which he draws a wild version, he relies on the fundamentals but never remains a prisoner of them: for over ten years, he has been developing this larger than jazz vision that modernizes the genre and pushes its boundaries. Thus, heritage becomes the future, armored with hip-hop or electronic music, bringing together the old and the modern in the service of lush, rich, and unprecedented grooves. He then invites singular voices, that of the French artist Bro, Lorine Chia, or the free spirit K.O.G., at once poet, singer, or dancer, who amplify these stylistic stances.Originally solitary, Léon Phal's composition takes place in front of a computer, where he who studied the style of the greatest reinvents them alone. With instinct wide open, driven by the inspiration of the moment, he rethinks the groove, searches, invents, and modernizes classical thought to rub it against contemporary influences, willingly citing El Michels Affair, The Roots, or Ahmad Jamal in the same sentence. But this is only a first step: everything ignites when he submits the fruit of his research to the quintet that surrounds him. On stage as on record, Arthur Alard (drums), Rémi Bouyssière (double bass), Gauthier Toux (keys), and Zacharie Ksyk (trumpet) reinterpret his ideas to deliver a dazzling version. You can hear the pleasure of playing and that of dancing, the groove is irrepressible.From hard bop to club music, from rap to electro, his ingenious breath transforms classics into modern orchestrations, plays on nuances and details, on analog and digital to project jazz into a new era. Crowned with the Jazz à Vienne or Nancy Jazz Pulsations awards from the start and with an already substantial discography, the composer is no longer content to digest the fundamentals and salute the pioneers: he now intends to carve out a place among them, as proven here in 14 tracks.","brand":"Léon Phal","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57520738697560,"sku":null,"price":23937895.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/vinyles.com\/en-us\/products\/leon-phal_stress-killer-edition-deluxe_2024_son","provider":"Vinyles.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}