Reviews that mention Robert Marcel Lepage
June 19, 2017
Lepage/Lussier et Le Quator Bozzini
Chants et Dances …with Strings
Tour de Bras TDB 900019 CD
Muche/Hein
7000 Eichen
JazzWerkstatt JW171
Carlo Actis Dato/Enzo Rocco Duo
Noise from the Neighbours
Setola di maiale SM3160
Olaf Rupp/Ulrike Brand
Shadowscores
Creative Sources CS 368 CD
Christy Doran/Alfred Vogel
Kontaktchemie
Boomslang LC 09496
Something in the Air: Unusual Guitar Pairings
By Ken Waxman
Although the keyboard may challenge it for top spot, the guitar may be the most popular musical instrument in the world. Think of any genre from pop to so-called classical and there’s a six-string player associated with it. Especially when electrified, the guitar’s adaptability gives it this status, and nowhere is this more evident than in improvised music. These five guitarists matched with musicians playing five different instruments demonstrate this. MORE
March 3, 2014
Le lait maternel
Ambiances Magnétiques AM 212
S.O.S.
Looking for the Next One.
Cuneiform RUNE 360/361
Keefe Jackson's Likely So
A Round Goal
Delmark DE 5009
Double Trio de Clarinettes
Itinéraire Bis
Between the Lines BTLCHR 71231
Something In The Air: Reed Blends.
By Ken Waxman.
Reed sections have been part of jazz’s performing vernacular since its earliest days. But only with the freedom that arose with modern improvised music in the 1960s were the woodwinds able to stand on their own. In the right hands, with the right ideas, a group consisting only of saxophones and/or clarinets can produce satisfying sounds that don’t need the intervention of a rhythm section or even brass for additional colors. All of the fine discs here demonstrate that. MORE
March 20, 2006
Jazz becomes Actuelle
for CODA
Need further proof that Quebec is a province pas comme des autres? At a time when jazz record labels and musicians lament lack of acceptance and opportunities, Ambiances Magnétiques (AM), the long-established, Montreal-based musique actuelle label has just set up a specific jazz imprint.
The reason is partially artistic and partially marketing, explains Joane Hétu, founder member of the AM collective, and artistic director of DAME, its distribution and marketing wing.
Musique actuelle as defined by our community implies that the composer is also performer of his music, she says, elaborating the philosophy which has guided AM since its inception in 1983. Yet with many of AMs founders recently involved with projects honoring the compositions of jazz icons, such as bassist Normand Guilbeaults new CD, Mingus Erectus, need for a specific jazz label became apparent. MORE
March 6, 2006
Music for Like Instruments; The Clarinets
Nine Winds NWCD0279
ROBERT MARCEL LEPAGE
Pee Wee et Moi
Ambiance Magnétiques Jazz AM 144
Explorations among the wood, metal and air columns of the reed family, these CDs respectively feature either five or seven clarinetists, yet have widely differing goals.
Part of his ongoing series of woodwind family investigations earlier volumes link flutes or Eb saxophones Los Angeles-based multi-reedist Vinny Golia and four associates take 13 tracks to permute characteristics of the clarinet family. Over its 73-minute length, Ab, Eb, A, Bb, G, alto, bass, contralto and contrabass woodwinds make up varying patterns, tempos and textures. Rousing more than dissonant, MUSIC FOR LIKE INSTRUMENTS; THE CLARINETS, resides in a zone somewhere between many Rova Saxophone Quartet CDs and what the woodwind section of an orchestra would sound like jamming away from the public ear. MORE