Thursday February 15: Sylvain Rifflet

In the ten years since he opened his discography with Alphabet and then Mechanics (winner of a Victoire du Jazz), Sylvain Rifflet has proven a certain taste for demanding and skillfully constructed programs. This Aux Anges is no exception to the rule, however showing a more personal side of the saxophonist's work which honors a reference in each of the pieces offered. Abbey Lincoln, Moondog, Stan Getz, Jon Irabagon, Steve Reich and even James Baldwin or Claude Sautet therefore parade on a very written, dynamic and relatively electric, even electronic framework between the guitars of Philippe Gordiani, the trumpet and the effects of Yoann Loustalot as well as the percussion of Benjamin Flament...