Michel Benita

Looking at Sounds (ECM 2663)

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Looking at Sounds

Michel Benita

ECM

602508728846

ECM 160238

ECM 2663

JAZZ

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CD 16,98 €

Algeria-born bassist Michel Benita, long a mainstay of the French jazz scene, introduces his revised quartet. Swiss flugelhornist Matthieu Michel and French drummer Philippe Garcia are retained from Benita’s Ethics band, and the quartet is completed by Belgian keyboardist Jozef Dumoulin. Dumoulin’s swirling, floating sounds and colours - he sounds like no other Fender Rhodes player - have inspired Benita to write evocative new music for the group. The repertoire also includes a bewitching cover version of Antônio Carlos Jobim’s “Inutil Paisagem”, the freely improvised "Cloud To Cloud", and a touching solo bass interpretation of Jule Styne’s “Never Never Land”.

PERSONNEL:

  • MICHEL BENITA, bass
  • MATTHIEU MICHEL, flugelhorn
  • JOSEF DUMOULIN, fender rhodes
  • PHILIPPE GARCIA, drums

Studios La Buissonne in the South of France in March 2019.

TRACKS:

  • 01. Dervish Diva
  • 02. Berceuse / Gwell Talenn
  • 03. Looking At Sounds
  • 04. Barroco
  • 05. Slick Team
  • 06. Cloud To Cloud
  • 07. Body Language
  • 08. Elisian / Inutil Paisagem
  • 09. Islander
  • 10. Low Tide
  • 11. Never Never Land