{"product_id":"leon-phal_stress-killer_2024_son","title":"Stress Killer","description":"Following the success of his summer tour and a flurry of awards, the French jazz tenor is re-releasing his album Stress Killer in an augmented version including 4 unreleased tracks, on CD and double 180g vinyl.\nA lot has happened since the release of Stress Killer exactly one year ago: with the New French Touch project that toured France's Smacs (current music venues) and his 70-date tour across Europe, North and South America, the Franco-Swiss saxophonist continues to build his audience by bringing jazz to unexpected places. It is some of this journey, these influences, and these encounters that he shares in this augmented edition. A desire to complete the journey and expand the spectrum of his constantly evolving jazz.\nAn heir to a certain academicism, a graduate of the Conservatory and the Haute École de Musique de Lausanne, Léon Phal's music is far from being confined to the classics. On the contrary, and like his reinterpretation of Coltrane's \"Naima\" from which he derives a wild version, he builds on fundamentals but never remains trapped by them: for over ten years, he has been developing this larger than jazz vision that modernizes the genre and pushes its boundaries. This is how heritage becomes the future, clad in hip-hop or electronic music, bringing together old and modern in the service of lush, rich, and original grooves. He invites unique voices, such as French artist Brö, Lorine Chia, or the free spirit K.O.G., who is at once a poet, singer, and dancer, to amplify these stylistic choices.\nInitially solitary, Léon Phal's compositions are created in front of a computer, where he, having studied the styles of the greatest, reinvents them alone. With an open instinct, driven by the inspiration of the moment, he rethinks groove, searches, invents, and modernizes classical thought to rub shoulders with contemporary influences, readily citing El Michels Affair, The Roots, or Ahmad Jamal in the same breath. 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 well as on record, Arthur Alard (drums), Rémi Bouyssière (double bass), Gauthier Toux (keyboards), and Zacharie Ksyk (trumpet) reinterpret his ideas to deliver a dazzling version. One hears the pleasure of playing and dancing, the groove is irrepressible.\nFrom hard bop to club music, from rap to electro, his ingenious breath transforms classics into modern orchestrations, plays with nuances and details, with analog and digital to project jazz into a new era. Awarded prizes such as Jazz à Vienne and Nancy Jazz Pulsations from the outset and with an already substantial discography, the composer no longer merely digests the fundamentals and salutes the pioneers: he now intends to","brand":"Leon Phal","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55313114104152,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0898\/4943\/0360\/files\/0198028432313.jpg?v=1760394558","url":"https:\/\/vinyles.com\/en-us\/products\/leon-phal_stress-killer_2024_son","provider":"Vinyles.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}