Olivier Temime "Inner Songs"

Is it possible to mix John Coltrane, Stevie Wonder, Oxmo Puccino and Duke Ellington? With Inner Songs, Olivier Temime, familiar with Saint-Denis Jazz, proves it and makes himself the heir of a cosmopolitan Jazz, nourished by the upheavals of his time, inherently mixed and powerful.
Landing in Paris in 1995 in the jazz clubs of Rue des Lombards with the Volunteered Slaves (his funk group with Afrobeat and hip hop accents), Olivier Temime quickly got noticed, including among American musicians passing through Paris. .
Whether arranging and improvising on a speech by Rahsaan Roland Kirk, harmonizing the song of a blackbird or moving from a lullaby tune to the solemn expressiveness of a flugelhorn solo , Temime composes very melodic, emotional music and also based on the interaction with the members of this new formation, a mixture of young shoots and great vintages, including Emmanuel Bex, long-time friend.