The Blue Land Matthieu Bordenave

• 1 La porte entrouverte 05:43
• 2 The Blue Land 05:21
• 3 Compassion 05:32
• 4 Cyrus 03:41
• 5 Refraction 04:42
• 6 Distance 04:01
• 7 Three Four 06:04
• 8 Timbre 04:41
• 9 Three Peaks 04:16
• Total Runtime 44:01

Info zu The Blue Land

Für den Nachfolger seines ECM-Leader-Debüts La traversée erweitert der französische Saxophonist Matthieu Bordenave sein Trio mit dem deutschen Pianisten Florian Weber und dem französischen Bassisten Patrice Moret um die einzigartige Sensibilität des Schlagzeugers James Maddren, dessen beharrlicher Puls einen gewandten Kontrapunkt zum ohnehin schon eigenwilligen Sound der Gruppe setzt. Neben der gefühlvoll kantigen Wiedergabe von John Coltranes "Compassion" nimmt sich das Quartett acht Bordenave-Originale vor, die eine Brücke zwischen kammerjazziger Dynamik und Post-Swing-Designs schlagen. Webers und Bordenaves eigenwillige Herangehensweise an ihre Instrumente - Bordenave ist sowohl auf dem Tenor- als auch auf dem Sopransaxophon zu hören - gehen nahtlos ineinander über und spinnen unerwartete Linien über einer höchst interaktiven Rhythmusgruppe. The Blue Land wurde 2022 in Pernes-Les-Fontaines aufgenommen und von Manfred Eicher produziert.

Matthieu Bordenave, Tenorsaxophon
Florian Weber, Klavier
Patrice Moret, Kontrabass
James Maddren, Schlagzeug

Matthieu Bordenave
is a French saxophonist and clarinetist, who is currently based in Munich, Germany. Born in 1983 in Southern France, he began his early musical studies with classical saxophonist Christian Charnay and with Thierry Girault (jazz) in Annecy, before he moved to Paris at the age of 17, where he continued to work with André Villéger. He entered the national conservatory (CNSM), studying in its department of jazz and improvised music. His workshops teachers in Paris included Chris Potter, Louis Sclavis, Paolo Fresu, Marc Johnson and bass-clarinetists Jean-Marc Volta and Philippe-Olivier Deveaux. His musical education continued at the Musikhochschule of Munich where he graduated with a Master of Music, he also received the DAAD Prize during his studies.

He has performed with some of most outstanding musicians including Lee Konitz, Rudi Mahall, Yaron Herman, Henning Sieverts, Florian Weber, Shinya Fukumori, Peter O'Mara, Geoff Goodman.

On Enja Records he releases two albums with his trio “Le Café Bleu International” as well as in quartet with “Terre de Sienne”.

He also records an album with the American guitarist Geoff Goodman: "Inverted Forest" on Doublemoon Records. In 2018, he makes his debut on the legendary label ECM Records with the Shinya Fukumori Trio.

His leader debut album “La traversée” (2020) on ECM records received enthusiastic reviews.

“Matthieu Bordenave has established himself as one of the outstanding figures of contemporary European jazz. His tone paintings are timeless pictures of enchanting beauty and power.” (ARD – German national broadcast)

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