Grand Piano Evening, Friday 2 September, at the Philharmonie de Paris (grande salle Pierre-Boulez): Part 1, Alain Jean-Marie and Diego Imbert (double voice) in their sparkling dialogue Interaction, music by Bill Evans (Tribum Music, 2020). The album was a resounding success. Part Two, Kenny Barron, Dave Holland and Jonathan Blake Trio, their latest album, without disappointment (Dare2 Records, 2020) She well deserves her title.
Jazz remained the music of science, conscience and exchanges, “The most commonly acquired and most learned music of folk music”According to critic Andre Francis, one cannot help but shiver at such a poster. In the names of the two pianists Alain-Jean-Marie and Kenny Baron, my bass partners, Diego Imbert and Mr. Dave Holland, we know in advance that they share a precise knowledge, and claim an unlimited amount, but above all, in the sense that André Bazin has suggested it to the cinematographer, “The ethics of the game,” “.
That’s what we were saying that last night, August 26 in the Drum, when we spotted the wonderful pianist Lauren Desmaris, born in Montreal in 1956, who first came from Quebec in “Old Country”. A discovery due to the tireless Alain Brunet, trumpeter and senior civil servant, co-founder of a very feminine festival smell of jazz. why ? What are we thinking about while listening?
Program dedicated to Bill Evans
There are objective reasons: Lauren Desmaris, with confidence, enthusiasm and joy, refused to play a program dedicated to the famous pianist Bill Evans (1929-1980), the god of modern pianists and the intangible memory of those who heard him on stage. Unsurprisingly, we’ll discover, along the way, that very young Lorraine Desmarez mastered playing – jazz can’t be learned, transported – in New York, with Kenny Barron.
Bill Evans, Kenny Barron, Villette-style jazz is fast approaching, it’s more than just a tag. We know that Alain-Jean-Marie and Kenny Barron have to share the stage. together in a role “Sideman”Jazz Dictionary is passed by. No need to expect some fencing from a distance. No competition, no race for prowess, that’s not the kind. Nope, an exact science in this case is improvisation. A common point between Alain-Jean-Marie, born in Pointe-a-Peter in 1945, and Kenny Barron, born in Philadelphia in 1943, is their respect for piano, history, and music.
It’s the young Diego Imbert, born in Paris in 1966, the most sought-after of double-guitarists, now a lead full of initiative, who, in 2019, offers Alain-Jean-Marie a repertoire composed by Bill Evans. He whose mastery we know is equal to his humility begins with refusal: “ Alan Bell saw Evans as a mountain, Diego Imbert explains. Finally convinced, he arrived at rehearsals with accurate recordings of Bill Evans’ choirs, with “voices” and rhythmic details… However, what I suggested to him was to play together as we are. For my part, I wouldn’t have dared imitate Eddie Gomez or Scott Lavaro or whatever… We would have played well-known compositions in Bill Evans versions, but rarely covered them : Waltz for Debby, Nardis, Turn Out the Stars, The Two Lonely People… “Hello! All four on Lorraine Desmarais at Les Trois Châteaux…
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