Louis Sclavis Atlas Trio
Biography Louis Sclavis Atlas Trio
Benjamin Moussay studied physics before committing himself full-time to music, subsequently studying in Strasbourg and Paris with pianist Hervé Sellin and bassist J-F Jenny-Clarke. He has since played with Dave Liebman, Archie Shepp, Glenn Ferris and many others. He leads his own trio which has recorded for the Laborie label, and plays in duo with singer Claudia Solal.
Gilles Coronado has collaborated with Sclavis previously in the project Signes Exterieurs with saxophonist Matthieu Metzger and choreographer Mathilde Monnier and her dancers. Much of his work has been between the genres. Current projects include membership of Francois Merville’s Quartet, whose album “O mago Hermeto” pays tribute to the music of Hermeto Pascoal, and he is also playing in the quartet Thôt. Previous associations include his own band Urban Mood (1994/2003), Marc Ducret, Bruno Chevillon, Aka Moon, Daunik Lazro, Barre Phillips, Alain Joule, Philippe Deschepper, Benoît Delbecq, Geoffroy De Masure, Steve Argüelles, Thierry Madiot, Steve Coleman, and many others.
Louis Sclavis, born 1953 in Lyon, has brought new impulses to jazz in Europe. He has been an ECM artist since 1991, when “Rouge” was recorded. Subsequent albums for the label are “Acoustic Quartet”, “Les Violences de Rameau”, “L’affrontement des prétendants”, “Dans La Nuit”, “Napoli’s Walls”, “L’imparfait des langues” and “Lost on the Way”. The observations of US critic Gary Giddins, made almost a decade ago in the Village Voice, still hold true: “Louis Sclavis has become an increasingly uncategorizable light in European jazz, devoting as much energy to seamless composition as to extended improvisation, breaking down rhythms so that swing or rock or a kind of static Morse-code repetition are options designed to stimulate specific emotional grounding, and exploring the often neglected legacy of French music; he is staking out his own precinct from which to pursue the jazz muse… …He has yet to repeat himself in the ECM cycle.”
