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Now's the Time 3: Focus on France / Various

Now's the Time 3: Focus on France / Various

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The much-anticipated third instalment of Kevin Le Gendre's acclaimed and NTT series. The first two volumes of Now's The Time showcased contemporary jazz from many geographical sources: the Americas, the Caribbean, the Middle East and Europe. This third edition of the series places a loudspeaker on the improed music of a single territory, France. It is a country that has had a lengthy and fruitful relationship with the artform pioneered by African-Americans with ionary ideas on how harmony, melody and rhythm might swirl into new structures and sensations, how a horn might wail in wa wa, a bass might walk, a cymbal r. Paris swooned to these new sounds. It went 'into the hot.' Jazz runs deep in Gallic ture. Ragtime resonated in French cities in the '20s, the surrealist magazine Documents lauded the genius of Duke Ellington and American players, of which Miles Da was the most iconic, later sojourned in the land with no prohibition on le bon vin. Eventually France produced its own hot club, and from the founding fathers Grappelli and Reinhardt came such prodigies as Urtreger, Michelot, Tousques, Portal, Texier, Lourau and Mezzadri. Now's The Time III presents a cross-section of some of the significant figures in contemporary French and Francophone [Luxemburg] jazz who have both built on and extended the legacy of those players. The strength of this collection lies, as was the case with previous editions, in its stylistic diversity. Sonically, it is really a case of access all areas. Hence, to the putative question of what is French jazz, there is no quick and easy answer, for the differences rather than similarities in approach to improed music are a defining feature of our play list.
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