Leroux, Sylvain - Quatuor Creole CD (Mega Blowout Sale)
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Sylvain Leroux: tambin, (Fula flute), flute, alto sax, khaen, dozon ngoni
Karl Berger: piano, vibraphone
Sergo Décius: congas, percussion
Matt Pavolka: contrabass
“Sylvain Leroux s debut Quatuor Créole is a blend of West Indian, African, jazz, and Western conservatory music. The record is built around the idea that jazz was born in New Orleans, largely because of the presence of Creole culture there. In Louisiana there were white French Creoles, mostly French and Spanish who settled there, and Creoles of color, who were free blacks who came from the West Indies.
The idea of fusing these two Creole cultures is reflected in the lineup of this record French Canadian Leroux and Haitian percussionist Sergo Décius are joined by distinguished pianist and vibe player Karl Berger, who Leroux has played and studied with for over 30 years.”
“As a disciple of Ornette Coleman s harmolodics, as a sideman for
Don Cherry s early ventures into the fusion of jazz and world music,
as the eccentric visionary behind the Woodstock-based Creative Music
Studio, and now as mastermind and conductor of the Stone Workshop
Orchestra, Karl Berger has practiced and encouraged the art of opening
oneself to the immediate, shrugging off preconceptions in order to hear the options inherent in the here and now.”-Jazz Times
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