Le Carnaval Jazz des animaux

Description

After « Pierre et le Loup. et le Jazz » in 2013, The Amazing Keystone Big Band continues its exploration of classical music with this playful and humorous reinterpretation of Camille Saint-Saëns's work. For the occasion, an original tale was written by Taï-Marc Le Thanh. Lions, Hens, Kangaroos, Elephants, Turtles and other Swans come to life under the author's pen, who lends this barnyard a lively wit.
Édouard Baer brilliantly embodies the narrator and hero of this adventure: the legendary Big Bad Wolf. The orchestra is not to be outdone: the trumpets cluck, the trombones roar and the saxophones prance.
The top players behind the music stands of this turbulent jazz machine do not merely pay homage, with class, to Count Basie, Duke Ellington or Thad Jones. This orchestra of hand-picked friends experiments with new ideas, while revisiting the repertoire of this undulating music by giving free rein to the creativity of its musicians.
The bubbling Amazing Keystone Big Band, created five years ago by Bastien Ballaz, Jon Boutellier, David Enhco and Frédéric Nardin, expresses both the spirit and soul of the great ensembles of the swing-king era, and the inventiveness, openness, insolent virtuosity of today's jazz.
With this « Jazz Carnival of the Animals », children and adults alike discover jazz in all its forms. Listeners travel through the history of this music and its different styles: from Blues to BeBop via Swing and Free Jazz, from the brass bands of New Orleans to Bossa Nova via Funk and Jazz Rock!
A creation that swings with cheek!