Raphael Imbert – Live au Tracteur (2011/2012) [Qobuz FLAC 24bit/88,2kHz]

Raphaël Imbert is a jazz saxophonist, conductor, composer, and professor of French music. He is founder and artistic director of the Nine Spirit Company. As self-made musician, Raphaël Imbert takes an atypical path in the world of jazz and improvised music. After his New York Project, which excited much attention in the press in 2009, Raphaël Imbert again draws inspiration from the Afro-American tradition and his personal experiences based on cultural exchange and his own Provençal roots.

On his return from a month of musical exploration of ‘Dixieland’, that other key environment of American jazz, and his research into the workings of improvisation (IMPROTECH – CNRS, EHESS, LAHIC, IRCAM), Raphaël Imbert took up residence at ‘Le Tracteur’, a restaurant and exchange forum in the Upper Provence countryside, in order to record with his quartet his new suite, ‘USUITE’ , a document of his journey to the American South, with Joe Martin, Gerald Cleaver, and Stéphane Caracci on vibraphone.

Born in 1974, Raphaël Imbert is a self-taught musician who made his own way as an artiste within the great jazz family and improvised music, but also as an exigent and fastidious lecturer and a precise improvisator and arranger. One of his specialist fields is «spirituality in Jazz», which gave him the privilege to be laureate of the Villa Medici’s Hors les Murs in 2003, providing him a scholarship for a study trip to New York. In 2006, he recorded « Suite élégiaque » with the famous pianist Yaron Herman on ‘NEWTOPIA PROJECT’ produced by Zig Zag Territoires. This album led him to the prestigious jazz award given by France’s Jury de Concours National de la Defense in 2005. In 2008, he created amazement with the work ‘BACH COLTRANE’ project, largely acclaimed by the public. In this homogeneous creation, Raphaël Imbert explores the inmost depths of a universal aesthetic imagination: a narrative journey without borders, with a dynamic and original poetry. His work is based on the pieces of Jean-Sebastian Bach and John Coltrane; two masters within the art of improvisation and the science of composition. In 2009 he recorded N_Y PROJECT at the Sear Sound Studio in New York. Such a catharsis, the encounter with Joe Martin (double bass) Gerald Cleaver (drum) and a certain skill in composition entranced Raphaël Imbert’s vision of jazz with the historic, and the imaginary. This American recording is a manifesto of an engaged human quest. From Duke Ellington’s rolling drums in Harlem to the master of New York’s underground, John Zorn, to the Cloisters or to pay tribute to Albert Ayler nor New York v brant life and to Coltrane profound meditation on Central Park West.

The Franco-American adventure continues in 2010 with the recording of ‘USUITE – LIVE AU TRACTEUR’. This time, the recording took place on Rapahël’s homeland, in the Upper Provence countryside, between Durance and Verdun. His quartet, USuite, narrates in five parts his recent trip to the South of the United State, a research project under the auspices of IMPROTECH to develop the improvisation software OMax. 2011 was another remarkable year for the composer with the release of USUITE – LIVE AU TRACTEUR, followed by MOZART ELLINGTON, a creation that took place at the Grand Théâtre de Provence in Aix-en-Provence.

Tracklist:
01 – Usuite: I. Shared Temples
02 – Usuite: II. Ecosystem of citybirds
03 – Usuite: III. Po Boy
04 – Usuite: IV. Omax at Lomax
05 – Usuite: V. Jamin’ with Jamin

Note: Recorded in 44kHz, mastered to 88kHz.

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