Nelson Veras

.French alto saxophonist Christophe Monniot’s sextet Six Migrant Pieces, which closed FJSB’s second evening, also offered musical links to real-world problems of violence and climate change, exacerbated by forced migration. Without the didactic texts voiced on his eponymously titled CD, the messages were conveyed by the instrumental skills of the saxophonist plus fellow French stalwarts trumpeter Aymeric Avice, bassist Bruno Chevillon and drummer Franck Vaillant as well as Brazilian guitarist Nelson Veras and Belgian keyboardist Jozef Dumoulin. See /Festivals on Jazzword.com