Didier Lockwood - Open Doors (2017) [Official Digital Download]

Didier Lockwood has had a diverse career, ranging from fusion to swing and advanced hard bop. In the 1980s, he was considered the next in a line of great French violinists after Stephane Grappelli and Jean-Luc Ponty, but he maintained a fairly low profile in the 1990s. Lockwood began studying violin when he was six. Ten years later, he stopped his formal training and joined a rock group. He played in Paris with Aldo Romano and Daniel Humair, among others, met Grappelli and toured with him. He had a fusion group called Surya and recorded with Tony Williams around the same period of time (1979). Didier Lockwood played in the United States on several occasions in the 1980s and recorded an acoustic album in 1986 with fellow violinists John Blake and Michal Urbaniak.

We have been waiting almost 10 years for Didier Lockwood’s new album. And such a nice project! An international quartet with the swinging André Ceccarelli on drums, the effervescent Italian pianist Antonio Farao, and the solid Darryl Hall on double bass.

Tracklist:

01. Open Doors
02. Good Morning Lady Sun
03. Quark
04. The ballad of Pat & Robin
05. Positive Life
06. The One Shot Duet
07. Little Bossa
08. Mathilde and the Ghost
09. Blues Fourth
10. Ballad for Four
11. Now I Really Got the Blues
12. Time to Time

Personnel:

Didier Lockwood - violin
Antonio Farao - piano
Darryl Hall - double bass
André Ceccarelli - drums



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