Stéphane Spira - First Page (2006)
Stéphane Spira - First Page (2006)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) ~ 350.74 Mb + 75.48 Mb (Scans) | 01:01:40
Post-Bop, Contemporary Jazz | Label: Bee Jazz - BEE 012
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) ~ 350.74 Mb + 75.48 Mb (Scans) | 01:01:40
Post-Bop, Contemporary Jazz | Label: Bee Jazz - BEE 012
To speak of maturity when one is confronted to an artist’s first opus may seem presumptuous. Yet the word comes to mind naturally upon listening to this « first page ». Here is finally a musician who waited for his time before getting into a studio. He did well to do so. The orchestra runs to perfection, everything is ohesion, mutual listening. Stéphane knows that one of the keys to success resides in how to surround himself.
John Coltrane, Miles Davis and so many others demonstrated that well. For this doubly ambitious project where he affirms himself as a soloist as well as plays his own music, Stéphane needed poetry, tenderness, caress, delicacy. Such is exactly the miracle that took place. A miracle that slowly matured from the mind of the composer. The orchestra lives and breathes as one. Proof being Excès à petites doses, in which the tempo constantly moves in crystal-clear understanding. Thanks to Olivier Hutman, Philippe Soirat and Gilles Naturel, a trio that combines softness and efficiency.
Mention must also be made of trumpeter Stéphane Belmondo, here playing the bugle, in perfect tune with our hero. The jazz scene will have to take notice. For jazz clubs regulars, Stéphane Spira is this « grinning teddy bear » who shows up at night unannounced, unpacks his tenor or soprano in a corner, then discretely blends in with the band, regardless of the style or context. He shines during jam sessions. He is always the right man at the right place. How can one not be seduced by his velvety finger work? Stéphane is instinctive, a sweet man that knows intrinsically when to speak and when to step aside when necessary. Always working for the group, for the music. His qualities show right away on this first record. The sound of the soprano on Five Times a Day wins us over. The same goes for the tenor on Angel. The accuracy of the tempi on Bric à broc is impressive. The natural sense of space and articulation of Babeth seduces.
And to further affirm his family of thought, Stéphane aptly chooses two of the most beautiful standards (The Peacocks by Jimmy Rowles and Luiza by Tom Jobim), as if to better say « I love you ».
A nice work of art to keep preciously before filing it in your record collection between James Spaulding, the formidable flutist, and Spyro Gyra, a band with a more eclectic sound. It is also between these two names that Stéphane Spira’s own will be featured in the jazz dictionary, right beside « Spirituals ».
Spirituality! His music does not lack any.
– Jean-Michel Proust
Track List:
01. Bric a Broc (Spira) - 5:58
02. Five Times a Day (Spira) - 6:07
03. R.V. Bossa (Spira) - 8:20
04. L'Exces a Petites Doses (Spira) - 6:22
05. The Peacocks (Rowles) - 7:01
06. Then He Knows (Spira) - 6:13
07. Angel (Spira) - 6:17
08. Nazza (Spira) - 6:00
09. Babeth (Spira) - 6:36
10. Luiza (Jobim) - 2:46
Stephane Spira - tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone
Olivier Hutman - piano
Philippe Soirat - drums
Gilles Naturel - double bass
Stephane Belmondo - flugelhorn
Recorded at Studio du Petit-Pont in December 2004.
Stéphane Spira - First Page (2006)
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