HEDDY BOUBAKER / SEYMOUR WRIGHT / EDDIE PREVOST / PHILIP SOMERVELL / GUILLAUME VILTARD

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THURS 22ND APRIL
HEDDY BOUBAKER / SEYMOUR WRIGHT / EDDIE PREVOST / PHILIP SOMERVELL / GUILLAUME VILTARD

1st set : saxophones duet Heddy Boubaker / Seymour Wright

2nd set : Eddie Prevost trio : Philip Somervell (piano), Guillaume Viltard (double bass) and Eddie Prévost (drums)

3rd set : quintet : Heddy Boubaker & Seymour Wright (saxophones), Philip Somervell (piano), Guillaume Viltard (double bass) and Eddie Prévost (drums)

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about Heddy Boubaker


http://heddy.boubaker.free.fr

"Boubaker sounds like a host of seals, like water bouncing in a pan left in the sink, like the consequences of asthma - listen to his fat multiphonics and then tell me - or even like the heavy breath of a woman about to deliver. And then again, many more resemblances. He's a one-of-a-kind virtuoso, one of the best sax dissectors I've had the luck to meet recently." Massimo Ricci - Touching Extremes 2006

Born in 1963, Heddy started music by playing electric guitar in Rock bands as a teenager, since long time passed and he played many other musical styles and then progressively switched to the alto and bass saxophone. His main musical activities are now centered on improvised music and sound research; in solo or with others musicians, poets, dancers ... he is really found of musical meetings. He played on many international places with a lot of partners. He published many CDs and is very active in concerts organisation in the Toulouse area in France.


about Seymour Wright

http://incalcando.com/seymour_wright/

"Saxophonist Seymour Wright has emerged as the most important saxophonist of his generation. It's tempting to suggest that he stands as a successor/rival to Evan Parker & John Butcher, but it's more accurate to suggest that in his recent practice and in his unfashionable insistence that what he plays is jazz, rather than 'free music' or any other niche definition, he represents an alternative to those senior Englishmen, whose respectively evolving langages perhaps dominate our sense of what creative saxophone playing sounds like."

Brian Morton in notes on invenio ergo sum, Matchless Recordings MRCD75


about Eddie Prevost Trio

Philip Somervell (piano), Guillaume Viltard (double bass) and Eddie Prévost (drums).


Eddie Prévost is one of the founding innovators of the new improvisationary music that emerged in the 1960s. His own contribution spans the experimentalism implicit in the music of AMM – with its emphasis upon exploring sound sources – as well as experimental references to the world of jazz.


This trio is drawn together through association with Prévost’s workshop. Not free-jazz, not ‘free-bop, not free-improvisation, the trio displays many of the tonal and poly-rhythmic characteristics of jazz, but there is a strong emphasis on exploring the nature of sound and on collective playing.


Guillaume Viltard

http://utofmu.free.fr/



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