Christophe Dal Sasso, Dal Sasso Big Band – Le Carnajazz des animaux (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 48:47 minutes | 536 MB | Genre: Jazz
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At the head of a breathtaking jazz orchestra, Christophe Dal Sasso revisits “Le Carnaval des animaux” by Camille Saint-Saëns. With the exception of a few pieces (Le Cygne, Aquarium), this work is characterized by humor and lightness, perhaps even mockery and irony. Under the fertile pen of one of France’s greatest jazz orchestrators and arrangers, the text of the 14 movements remains faithful to the original. The work of arrangement and re-orchestration opens up areas of improvisation for outstanding soloists such as David El-Malek, Sophie Alour, Thomas Savy, Pierre de Bethmann and Julien Alour. This adaptation nonetheless lends a more moving, even introspective character to certain pieces. The rhythm of piano, double bass and drums plunges us into a whirlwind of swing, with all the animals dancing merrily away. How joyful! How beautiful is “Le Carnajazz des Animaux”!
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Dal Sasso Big Band & Christophe Dal Sasso – The Palmer Suite (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 52:58 minutes | 580 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Christophe Dal Sasso tells the story of Château Palmer and highlights what, for him, best characterizes the property “this mysterious equation between complexity and simplicity”.
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Dal Sasso Big Band – John Coltrane’s Africa Brass Revisited (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:28:45 minutes | 1,00 GB | Genre: Jazz
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In 1961, John Coltrane made his very first record for the Impulse label and signed, on this occasion, an album unique in his rich discography because it is the only one that the saxophonist has ever recorded with a big band: “Africa/Brass”.
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