Mario Canonge, Michel Zenino – Quint’up II (2023) [FLAC 24bit/88,2kHz]

Mario Canonge, Michel Zenino – Quint’up II (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 56:28 minutes | 1,07 GB | Genre: Jazz
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On the music scene for a several decades, this remarkable jazzman has become a key figure in the realm of jazz. Not only recognized for his talent but for his compositions as well. As a leader, he has written some of the most beautiful pieces of Caribbean music of the last decades before deciding to follow a more “Jazzistic” path with Rhizome. This orientation was confirmed first with Mitan, released in 2011, then with a particularly rich year 2018. At the beginning of the year, Quint’up, co-lead with his long-time accomplice Michel Zenino, agreed with all the critics. And in November, Mario presented Zouk Out, his jazz review of the contribution of zouk to Caribbean musical culture. After Kapital in 2020, in duet with Erik Pédurand, it is the return to the quintet which opens the year 2023, with the second volume Quint’Up II of the successful formation created with Michel Zenino.Martinican pianist Mario Canonge and Marseilles double bassist Michel Zenino form an atypical duo that juggles all the standards like balancing musicians in the history of jazz. They have been performing at Le Baiser Salé every Wednesday night for over ten years, and as they are also excellent composers, they wanted to write a repertoire for a jazz quintet, to extend their duo, based on interaction, and a strong musical telepathy, towards an expanded formula in the spirit of the great hard-bop quintets of the 1950-1960s (Jazz Messengers, Cannonbal Adderley, Clifford Brown & Max Roach, Horace Silver… The result is striking, magical, and fluid, as if the music was obvious, because this formidable quintet does not offer us a dusty jazz anchored in the past, but a music of today, powerful, festive, and sensitive, that happily mixes hard-bop and Caribbean music in a crazy creative energy, where melodies, harmonies, and rhythms mix well in the best of worlds. Mario Canonge and Michel Zenino have surrounded themselves with Parisian musicians, but all from the Americas: Cuban saxophonist Ricardo lzquierdo with such a warm sound, US trumpeter (and flutist) Josiah Woodson, whom we don’t know very well but who will soon make a name for himself, and the excellent Guadeloupean drummer Amand Dolmen (who has become a fixture on the French jazz scene for several years).

Tracklist:

1. Mario Canonge & Michel Zenino – Pa plis (Instrumental)
2. Mario Canonge & Michel Zenino – KL’s Wedding (Instrumental)
3. Mario Canonge & Michel Zenino – Mila (Instrumental)
4. Mario Canonge & Michel Zenino – Who cares (Instrumental)
5. Mario Canonge & Michel Zenino – Eti Anman (Instrumental)
6. Mario Canonge & Michel Zenino – Who speaks When I Speak (Instrumental)
7. Mario Canonge & Michel Zenino – So Fresh (Instrumental)
8. Mario Canonge & Michel Zenino – Retoño d’Esperanza (Instrumental)
9. Mario Canonge & Michel Zenino – Bad Bagad Be Good (Instrumental)
10. Mario Canonge & Michel Zenino – Anse Madame (Instrumental)
11. Mario Canonge & Michel Zenino – Dog Walk (Instrumental)

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