Carte Blanche To Anthony Jouravsky (Amg)

AMG, the future of jazz! Behind the three letters, four musicians with infinite talent. 
Because the 38Riv has been a laboratory of creation and experimentation for three years, it offers each of the band's musicians an evening of concerts between AMG pieces and improvisations.
First carte blanche given to double bassist Anthony Jouravsky.

AMG
What is a jazz band? At what point do four musicians, each with their own personal history and background as listeners, instrumentalists and improvisers, become an entity that transcends individuality and creates a sound together?
For pianist Antoine Fleury, double bassist Anthony Jouravsky, drummer Mailo Rakotonanahary and saxophonist Keïta Janota, this chemistry came to fruition one evening in March 2022 on the stage of Sunset, one of the legendary clubs on the rue des Lombards in Paris. Two months later, it was within the walls of the no less legendary Pigalle studio that AMG (as the four of them called themselves) recorded for the first time together what was to become their eponymous debut album, re-released in a revised and expanded form as AMG EXTENDED in December 2024 to rave reviews.
Since then, the AMG quartet has been a fixture in most of the capital's clubs - the Duc des Lombards, the Baiser Salé, the 38Riv, La Gare, La Petite Halle... - winning all the springboard competitions in which it takes part, and imposing this acronym, borrowed from a musical theory elaborated by saxophonist and flautist Yusef Lateef, in the jazz microcosm.
Precisely because AMG, in addition to being a gathering of inhabited prodigies, is a group, a sound, an energy, a spirit, a fire. At once grounded and modern, alternately feverish and soothing, AMG's music flies in the face of many contemporary clichés: jazz, as approached and practiced by these twentysomethings who cite the giants of modern jazz as much as their disciples of the new millennium or the young guard of French rap, is a music of the 21st century. And it doesn't need to be artificially crossover, or thought of as music to be listened to standing up, to be relevant in the eyes of the public of 2025, who long ago dismissed the question of musical genres and understood the power and universal scope of instrumental music.