Songbook (Live à La Gare) Raphaël Imbert

• 1 Ecosystem of Citybirds (Live à La Gare) 10:48
• 2 Adelphi Street (Live à La Gare) 07:08
• 3 El Hadj Omar (Live à La Gare) 09:46
• 4 I’ll Be Seeing You (Live à La Gare) 10:54
• 5 La Dame à la licorne (Live à La Gare) 07:01
• 6 Japanese Sketch (Live à La Gare) 08:38
• 7 The Zen Bowman (Live à La Gare) 09:44
• 8 Kadidja (Live à La Gare) 06:59
• Total Runtime 01:10:58

Info for Songbook (Live à La Gare)

Dive into the heart of Raphael Imbert and his quartet's musical universe with this captivating album recorded live in the legendary Parisian jazz and electro venue la Gare - le Gore. You'll hear the quartet's virtuosity and creativity in their own heady blues Ecosystem of Citybirds, the evocative Adelphi Street and the musing La Dame a la licorne. Each track invites you on a musical journey, from the emotional reunion of I'll be seeing you to the deep nuances of Japanese Sketch and Kadidja. Raphael Imbert and his quartet show how intense live performance can be when it's driven by their own music, the inspiration of the moment and their interaction with the audience.

Raphaël Imbert Quartet

Raphaël Imbert
saxophonist and jazz composer, recipient of a ‘Villa Médicis hors les murs’ award for his research into sacred music and jazz, who won the 28th national jazz competition at La Défense in 2005 with his ensemble Newtopia. Selfmade man, Raphaël Imbert started jazz at Marseille Conservatory with Philippe Renault and met there regional musicans with whom he plays regularly (Emile Atsas, Jean-Luc Difraja, Vincent Lafont, Pierre Fenichel...). He wins with Jean-Jacques Élangué the first price of Marseille Conservatory and creates 2 groups "Hemlé orchestra" and " Atsas imbert consort", with whom he will play in numerous festivals (Vienne, Nice, Fiesta des Suds, Théâtre des Salins...). He develops his taste for composition and the most eclectic musical situations. He creates a vision of music and jazz connected to spirituality very essential to the jazzman approach. For this purpose, he creates « Nine Spirit » to play "sacred music" of Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, Albert Ayler and others, and to produce shows which are inspired by powerful texts written by Théodore Monod, Amadou Hampatê Bâ, Martin Luther King ... Raphaël Imbert worked on a study focused on the Sacred in Jazz and becomes recipient of Villa Médicis Hors Les Murs, managed by AFAA and the french foreign affairs ministry which enabled him to stay in New York during october 2003. Raphaël Imbert develops many teaching project in Marseille Conservatory, at Festival Cluny and Fai’art. He belongs to the Orchestre National de Jazz administration board since september 2004 and wins the 28th national jazz competition at La Défense in 2005 with his ensemble Newtopia. He writes music for cinema and television for Philippe Carrése et Isabelle Boni-Claverie projects. Raphaël Imbert manages 2 groups within the Nine Spirit Company, 2 records are released with Zig Zag Territoires Label : la Suite Elegiaque"with Newtopia Project (ZZT 061103) , and a special christmas album, Pieces for Christmas Peace with Sixtine Group distribution Harmonia Mundi.

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