Concluded Thursday and welcomed Friday with The Blue Land by Matthieu Bordenave, released on ECM in 2024

Tyran Grillo wrote for ECM Reviews:

In this follow-up to 2020’s La traversée, saxophonist Matthieu Bordenave again joins subtle forces with pianist Florian Weber and bassist Patrice Moret, now adding drummer James Maddren. The result is a new songbook written by the bandleader for the group at hand.

...The title track is a more abstract wonder that dabs its brush into a palette of even finer details. Dampened pianism weaves through caressed drums and a distant tenor before the bass drops its harmonic stones into the water.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8dAYTh1KZY&list=RDb8dAYTh1KZY&start_radio=1

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Ended Thursday and welcomed a Friday off work after a later long swim with La Traversée by Matthieu Bordenave, released on ECM in 2020.

Tyran Grillo wrote for ECM Reviews:

...ever open to the possibilities of space and unstructured play. Other influences include classical chamber music, especially of the modern French persuasion (think Messiaen and Dutilleux). Classical training indeed comes to the fore in his technical control while his love of jazz spreads across eight originals in the fashion of a spilled glass of water—inching ever closer to the edge of the table but prevented from falling by delicate surface tension.

When the darkening of “River,” a duet between the bandleader and Weber, makes its gradations known, we find the saxophonist sitting alone in a place of seeming childhood significance...

https://ecmreviews.com/2022/07/02/matthieu-bordenave-la-traversee-ecm-2683/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hX7mZFKglxA&list=OLAK5uy_lKF8US7BvvtOE3d8qWeBkYrS5yENnKn10

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JazzZeitung.de — Klangmaler Matthieu Bordenave mit neuer CD „The Blue Land“ – Kaum zu glauben, wie schnell die Zeit vergeht. Im Februar 2019 stellte der Saxophonist Matthieu Bordenave eindrucksvoll sein Trio mit Patrice Moret am Kontrabass und dem

https://www.jazzzeitung.de/cms/2024/02/klangmaler-matthieu-bordenave-mit-neuer-cd-the-blue-land/

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