|
contents | jazz | |||||||||||||
| French jazz at Pierre Menard Gallery Wright/Palier/Toutlemonde with Frenette/McQuire -will perform at Pierre Menard Gallery, 10 Arrow St., Harvard Sq. Cambridge on Thursday, 7 June . This trio is the convergence of two duos, Jack Wright and Agns Palier, which performed the first time in Paris in April 2005, and Agns and Olivier Toulemonde, who have performed extensively in Europe. The three toured together in Fall 2006 in Mulhouse and Strasbourg France, Bern Switzerland, Munster, Hamburg, and Berlin Germany. They will be on tour in June 2007 in Quebec Canada, and numerous cities in the US Jack Wright has been a full-time saxophonist of strange music since the late 70's, one of the most tour-obsessed musicians around. In Europe he finds like-minded players and drags them back to the states to tour and make friends here. He plays a lot of different ways, from the “real notes” of free jazz to no-recognizable-sax-sound. He wears shorts in all kinds of weather so he can mute against his bare leg, which is his trademark. Known to play with everyone, but actually he only plays with people who interest him musically, which is still a lot. He may be obscure but he comes close to doing exactly what he wants, and that is no simple matter for any of us. Agnes Palier is a vocalist of sound who lives in Rambouillet France (close to Paris). She tours extensively with the latest crop of brilliant French improvisers: Stephane Rives, Pascal Battus, Bernard Denzler, Sophie Agnel, Christine Sehnaoui and Olivier Toutlemonde. Agnes also teaches Feldenkreis Method in Paris, incorporating spoken voice and improvisation in her work. She met and played with Jack Wright in Paris in 2004, and then Olivier joined the collaboration last fall for a European tour. Olivier Toutlemonde improvises with objects that can be found in any kitchen--wine glasses and metal wisks, as well as springs and taut string, all of which are scraped or coaxed slowly across a simple board. He is unamplified, on this tour, his preference. His finesse is in his exquisite timing--the right sound at exactly the right moment. His playing is neither minimal nor maximal but perfectly appropriate to the setting. He performs at all the usual festivals in which Europe cultivates its avant-garde. He and Agnes have collaborated frequently, and have an album together, Rocco. write your comments about the article :: © 2007 Jazz News :: home page |