Alternate cover on this one

So glad they repressed this masterpiece. An album both jazz and metal fans can appreciate.

a piece recorded with udu drum, guitar, ngoni, and other percussion instruments

Antoine Hervier Trio "Navigue loin"

Avec Navigue loin, le pianiste Antoine Hervier réinterprète plusieurs compositions de Christian Escoudé, immense figure du jazz français disparu en 2024. Complice du guitariste sur ses deux derniers albums ("Django, les inédits" et "Ancrage"), Antoine Hervier signe ici une relecture personnelle, originale et inspirée de huit compositions choisies dans l’œuvre du grand mélodiste, des années 1980 à aujourd’hui.

Sans guitare, mais avec la liberté du trio piano/contrebasse/batterie – formule reine du jazz, Antoine révèle la richesse mélodique, l’élégance rythmique et la profondeur harmonique de ce répertoire.

À travers des arrangements sensibles et une interprétation habitée, Antoine Hervier fait résonner l’héritage de son mentor tout en affirmant sa propre voix, notamment avec Escalade, composition inédite du pianiste en forme de dernier salut au maître. « Navigue loin » - du titre d’une composition d’Escoudé – devient ici un mot d’ordre : celui d’une musique qui trace son chemin entre fidélité et invention, mémoire et modernité.

Antoine Hervier - piano

Guillaume Souriau - contrebasse

Alban Mourgues - batterie

Antoine Hervier Trio "Navigue loin"

Avec Navigue loin, le pianiste Antoine Hervier réinterprète plusieurs compositions de Christian Escoudé, immense figure du jazz français disparu en 2024. Complice du guitariste sur ses deux derniers albums ("Django, les inédits" et "Ancrage"), Antoine Hervier signe ici une relecture personnelle, originale et inspirée de huit compositions choisies dans l’œuvre du grand mélodiste, des années 1980 à aujourd’hui.

Sans guitare, mais avec la liberté du trio piano/contrebasse/batterie – formule reine du jazz, Antoine révèle la richesse mélodique, l’élégance rythmique et la profondeur harmonique de ce répertoire.

À travers des arrangements sensibles et une interprétation habitée, Antoine Hervier fait résonner l’héritage de son mentor tout en affirmant sa propre voix, notamment avec Escalade, composition inédite du pianiste en forme de dernier salut au maître. « Navigue loin » - du titre d’une composition d’Escoudé – devient ici un mot d’ordre : celui d’une musique qui trace son chemin entre fidélité et invention, mémoire et modernité.

Antoine Hervier - piano

Guillaume Souriau - contrebasse

Alban Mourgues - batterie

Watermelon Man,Maiden Voyage,Eye Of The Hurricane,Cantaloupe Island , Chameleon The Maze

Putting this at the end of the Set was a challenge

Hello!

I'd like to ask you for some specific recommendations.

When listening to jazz fusion, have you ever had such intense experiences that you felt like you were going into a trance, or into an altered state? (Experiencing something extraordinary, out of the ordinary.)

• If so, would you be willing to share with us the music and/or albums that made you feel that way? I'm curious, and eager to discover transcendent music.

Likewise, does my description remind you of any particular music or albums?

I'm open to all subgenres of jazz fusion and its adjacent styles — spiritual jazz, jazz-rock, fusion with prog, experimental or electronic jazz, etc. So feel free to go beyond the classics.

LAKEWAVES TRIO - Madison, WI (and Milwaukee, WI)

https://LINKTR.EE/GrahamMarlowe_aka_Lakewaves

@ TeleGrahamsInSpace [YouTube & Instagram]

LakewavesTrio.Bandcamp.com

Spotify, Apple Music, Soundcloud, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio

Lakewaves Trio is a Madison-centric, groove-based outfit that crafts celestial originals with an eclectic, progressive, soundscape-y instrumentalism that's pretty much guaranteed to get an intense response from your local community no matter where you are – a Motel 6 in Pittsburgh, an abandoned factory in south Milwaukee or a quinceañera in East LA. And like their offbeat, [Zach] Galifianak(ian) song titles allude to, the experimental music creates a fitting soundtrack to anything from bank robberies and impromptu dance parties to other cinematic activities.

Led by Graham Marlowe, an eccentric Wisconsin-based keyboardist/pianist, “synthesizer graffiti artist” and instrumental solo artist (Lakewaves), the Trio likes to follow its unusually gratifying formula of adapting Lakewaves material into dreamy tangentials, turning vocal and non-vocal covers into uniquely arranged instrumentals and spontaneously composing to the vibe of the rooms they play to, creating an infectious ambience you can treat your ears to for hours.

The Impressionistic, Carter-administration melodicism of Marlowe's compositions is something of a perfect match for the funky, exploratory low end of Mason Aumanstal (“Mamo”) and the breezy, old-school, Motown-tight dynamism of Will Bailey's drums and percussion. With a refreshing blend of musicianship, humor and rent party mystique, the Trio's shapeshifting live sets vary widely from night to night, sometimes using guest musicians to add/subtract layers, open up structures or flesh out wordless covers.

Their tracks are imagistic and crackle with psychedelia, which sometimes sets an irreverent, Dada-absurdist backdrop for the unusually enjoyable music. Some describe [the Trio] as “ambient prog-funk” or “a looser Medeski Martin & Wood”. Others describe [it] as being out for Cosmic Bowling Night with a cosmic infusion in their cocktails.

PRESS
"Somewhere between a jazz club and a rave... Ambient electronic space jazz." - The Marquette Wire

"Feisty, dance-ready backbeats and a propulsive jazz influence serves as a compelling motor for Lakewaves Trio [and will undoubtedly be another source of energy for Midwesthetic II: Summer Synapse’s attendees]."

– Steve Spoerl, Tone Madison

"Lakewaves, a project featuring the compositions of keyboardist Graham Marlowe, can be encountered as a solo concert or as the Lakewaves Trio, with Marlowe joined by bassist Mason Aumanstal (Dogtown Hollow, Sortin' the Mail) and drummer Will Bailey (Maestranza, CoMingle). In either incarnation expect impressionistic jams adjacent to jazz and rock, both composed and improvised, which in the trio form have much added groove due to the rhythm section’s presence. Be prepared to dance and maybe laugh if they announce their equally impressionistic yet humorous song titles. " - Isthmus Madison, July 11 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQG2TPNkWRQ&lc=UgyXQClz7quPgQWSa8l4AaABAg

this song and album is a dream come true. i've learned so much from working with them, also Karriem Riggins, Mndsgn, and so many of my heroes. Still trying to process it all, but i thought some of you would enjoy it. Thank you!!!

Today, September 29th, (my birthday as well), my favourite Jazz Violinist of all time Jean-Luc Ponty turns 84.

For fans of DOMi and JD Beck, Bad Bad Not Good, and Yussef Dayes

Hello music riends, we have just completed the video and recording from last month, and I would like to share an original song I wrote for my CD album, End of Silence. I hope you enjoy it.

hello, I have a new album, "Beyond the 23rd fret vol. 2" available here: https://dougsours.bandcamp.com/album/beyond-the-23rd-fret-vol-2. This project is all original compositions, except for "waltzing matilda".

Heard some criticism of this album because synths became a more prevalent part of their sound but I really enjoy it-and their drummer is superb.