FIFTY–FIFTY (1) NEW YORK SESSIONS (vinyl)

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THIS IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL ALTO SAXOPHONE SOUND TODAY (Le Monde). The first, purely acoustic, extremely free, would encapsulate his love for New York City and his tireless exploration of what jazz still has to say. The second, electric, would draw on the flourishing energy of the young French generation for the ferments of a more sensual and immediate music. And to top it all off, why not release this double album over time? Rather than greedily devouring all this music at once, why not give yourself the leisure to savor one, then the other? Conceived as a single object, this double album was thus imagined as an appointment with the future to assemble the two halves of this fiftieth birthday. The music you can hear therefore comes from the joyful and voracious encounter of an exceptional rhythm section that revels in discovering itself under the direction of Pierrick's saxophone, as incisive as it is inspired, and whose subtle compositions serve as an inexhaustible playground. The pleasure of this quartet to play is palpable, it is part of the great creative New York tradition: lyrical, audacious, obvious. You therefore hold in your hands the first opus of 50/50: New York Session. This album may only be half of a double, but it is already, without a doubt, a great jazz record.