Jean-Marc Foltz – Wild Beasts (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Jean-Marc Foltz - Wild Beasts (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz] Download

Jean-Marc Foltz – Wild Beasts (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 44:21 minutes | 815 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Vision Fugitive

With “Wild Beasts”, clarinetist Jean-Marc Foltz and his three accomplices offer a jazz safari with feline accents. Eight expressive musical paintings constitute the stages of this journey. Through its audacity, the structured music evokes the freedom of wild fauna and like it, does not bother with constraints. A wild jazz adorned with colorist poetry.
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Jean-Marc Foltz, Philippe Mouratoglou – Legends Of The Fall (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Jean-Marc Foltz, Philippe Mouratoglou - Legends Of The Fall (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz] Download

Jean-Marc Foltz, Philippe Mouratoglou – Legends Of The Fall (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 44:04 minutes | 736 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Vision Fugitive

Partners on the scene for ten years, and both at the origin of the creation of the label Fugitive Vision which has already published their respective discs, the clarinet player Jean-Marc Foltz and the guitarist Philippe Mouratoglou concretize for the first time on record since Steady Rollin ‘Man (Fugitive Vision 2012) – their tribute to the legendary Robert Johnson – a dialogue that has the elegance of completely reshuffling the cards of their game.
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Jean-Marc Foltz, Stephan Oliva – Indigo (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Jean-Marc Foltz, Stephan Oliva - Indigo (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz] Download

Jean-Marc Foltz, Stephan Oliva – Indigo (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 48:50 minutes | 801 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Vision Fugitive

For the twentieth anniversary of their duo, clarinettist Jean-Marc Foltz and pianist Stéphan Oliva paint, with tenderness and nuance, the portrait of Duke Ellington.
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Jean-Marc Foltz & Stephan Oliva – Gershwin (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Jean-Marc Foltz & Stephan Oliva – Gershwin (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2kHz  | Time – 45:05 minutes | 645 MB | Genre: Jazz
OStudio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: Qobuz | Digital Booklet | © VISION FUGITIVE

Non, décidément, enregistrer un hommage à George Gershwin ne se résume pas au choix de quelques standards célèbres relus comme à la parade par de bons musiciens. Il y faut, plus encore qu’avec n’importe quel autre répertoire, une compréhension intime de la richesse harmonique, une conscience de l’histoire — comment faire du neuf avec du jamais vieux — et ce savoir spécial qui consiste à éviter tous les clichés jazzistiques tout en s’inscrivant dans une tradition. Trois qualités distinctives que cultivent, depuis déjà plus d’une décennie, le clarinettiste Jean-Marc Foltz et le pianiste Stéphane Oliva. Ils avaient auparavant fréquenté l’ombre intimidante de Giacinto Scelsi, l’un des plus passionnants créateurs de musique contemporaine (Soffio di Scelsi, 2007), revisité en voyageurs engagés le grand répertoire classique pour clarinette et piano (Visions fugitives, 2011) ou plus récemment relu le mythe de Pandore (Pandore, 2016).

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