{"product_id":"mario-stantchev_jazz-before-jazz_2016_son","title":"Jazz before jazz","description":"Mario Stantchev and Lionel Martin not only reinvent the music of Louis Moreau Gottschalk but also elevate it... The Bulgarian pianist Mario Stantchev, based in Lyon since 1980, has rather accustomed us to ethnic jazz and large ensembles (sextet, big band); the Lyon saxophonist Lionel Martin, after exploring the paths of very contemporary jazz with the trio Résistances, alternated the energetic ethiojazz of Ukandanz with the even more energetic music of Steve McKay (Stooges); there is no doubt that the adventurous character of Louis Moreau Gottschalk has captivated Mario Stantchev and Lionel Martin, but even more so, it is the mixed character of his music that has brought them together around his music. It would undoubtedly be excessive to consider Louis Moreau Gottschalk, born in New Orleans in 1829, as one of the (great) fathers of jazz; however, the temptation is strong to see him as the \"missing link\" connecting Western classical music and what will become jazz a few decades after his death. Gottschalk is not only this prodigious pianist, trained in Paris in the purest romantic tradition, but he is also the first composer to have integrated into European musical technique the rhythms, harmonies, and melodies from the southern part of the United States: the sound of slaves, Creole and Caribbean music, Iberian and Latin American. Starting from Gottschalk's piano melodies, pianist Mario Stantchev and saxophonist Lionel Martin bring their experience of jazz, classical music, Bulgarian and African traditional music, rock...","brand":"MARIO STANTCHEV","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57732061069656,"sku":null,"price":20160304.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/vinyles.com\/en\/products\/mario-stantchev_jazz-before-jazz_2016_son","provider":"Vinyles.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}