Stéphane Kerecki Quartet: Nouvelle Vague

Rating: ★★★

Record and Artist Details

Musicians:

Emile Parisien (ss)
Jeanne Added (v)
Stéphane Kerecki (b)
John Taylor (p)
Fabrice Moreau (d)

Label:

Aeon

September/2014

Catalogue Number:

OTN021

RecordDate:

13–15 January 2014

French Nouvelle Vague cinema introduced some great filmmakers: Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Jacques Demy and Louis Malle. It also featured some spectacular jazz, and jazz-related, soundtracks, Miles Davis's score for L’ Ascenseur Pour l’Échafaud being perhaps the most frequently referenced. Here bandleader Stéphane Kerecki takes on some of the movies' finest musical moments. They're hugely varied in tone and sound – the writing of Georges Delerue, Michel Legrand and Bernard Herrmann all appears here alongside that of Miles – but the quartet finds cohesion in the mixture and the result is a charming set, given much of its emotional colour by Emile Parisien's resonant soprano sax work. The largely youthful quartet benefit from the wisdom of John Taylor on piano, while vocalist Jeanne Added brings an understated charisma – no hint of grandstanding here – to two numbers: Michel Legrand's ‘La Chanson de Maxence’ from the wonderful Les Demoiselles de Rochefort and Serge Rezvani's ‘Jamais je ne t'ai dit que je t'aimerais toujours' from Godard's Pierrot le Fou.

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