Jean-Marc Foltz - Visions fugitives '2012

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       His long friendship and complicity with Stephan Oliva gave clarinettist
Jean Marc Foltz the desire to release this first album, Visions fugitives, on
his newly born label, which also bears the name of the title of the Prokofiev
work that inspired the duo, of which the pianist plays an extract as an
introduction. This is followed by various pieces in which jazz and classical
music play mirror games. Using themes borrowed from the classical repertoire
(Brahms, Poulenc, Berg) and great standards (Naima, Lonnie's Lament), the two
musicians blur the aesthetic boundaries of this programme with amazing talent,
where composition and improvisation merge, between improvising interpretations
and composed improvisations. However, the performers do not take liberties with
respect to the text of the classical pages, contrary to what the effect of
newness in sound would suggest, as in the Andante un poco adagio of Brahms'
Clarinet Sonata, in which Stéphan Oliva asserts that he has neither added nor
subtracted anything from the score. It is therefore their innovative approach,
in sound and phrasing, that gives the impression of different music.
This look to classical music by jazz performers is not new: in 1963 Benny
Goodman premiered Poulenc's Clarinet Sonata in New York with Leonard Bernstein
at the piano. This chamber music recital may not really be jazz music, but what
is certain is that the high-flying duo formed by Stephan Oliva and Jean Marc
Foltz gives us the chance to hear some beautifully played music. 

Tracklist:
1 01. Jean-Marc Foltz - Lentamente - introduction (02:06)
1 02. Jean-Marc Foltz - Adage (03:12)
1 03. Jean-Marc Foltz - Part II (02:45)
1 04. Jean-Marc Foltz - Récit (01:39)
1 05. Jean-Marc Foltz - Romanza (04:46)
1 06. Jean-Marc Foltz - Between Green and Grey (03:39)
1 07. Jean-Marc Foltz - Naima (05:22)
1 08. Jean-Marc Foltz - Vier Stücke I (01:08)
1 09. Jean-Marc Foltz - Variation Berg #1 (01:26)
1 10. Jean-Marc Foltz - Variation Berg #2 (01:50)
1 11. Jean-Marc Foltz - Vier Stücke II (02:19)
1 12. Jean-Marc Foltz - Andante un poco adagio (05:19)
1 13. Jean-Marc Foltz - Reminiscence (02:45)
1 14. Jean-Marc Foltz - Lonnie's Lament (05:43)

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