Delbecq, Benoît Trio / Sixth Jump, The
Album: Sixth Jump, The   Collection:Jazz
Artist:Delbecq, Benoît Trio   Added:May 2011
Label:Songlines Recordings  

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Add Date: 2011-05-14 Pull Date: 2011-07-16 Charts: Jazz
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1. Apr 04, 2013: No Cover, No Minimum
Ando
4. Jul 15, 2011: No Cover, No Minimum
Ando
2. Nov 25, 2011: No Cover, No Minimum
Ando
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Ando
3. Oct 21, 2011: No Cover, No Minimum
Ando
6. Jul 01, 2011: Music Casserole
Barragán

Album Review
Fo
Reviewed 2011-05-14
BENOÎT DELBECQ TRIO: The Sixth Jump
Songlines, 2010

AVANT-MODERN JAZZ – Wow! This French trio has a tight, gripping sound: Delbecq’s piano sends brilliant flashes of strangely-colored light over heavy, spiraling bass lines and shape-shifting drum rhythms that seem to move in all directions at once, often bouncing off otherworldly “prepared” piano. These pieces don’t move forward but rather inward, spelunking deep down into themselves. Excellent stuff!

Benoît Delbecq : piano, prepared piano
Jean-Jacques Avenel : bass
Émile Biayenda : drums, percussion

Try any track. Fo’s Picks: 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10

1. 6:52 – supercool clockwork groove, angular piano exploration rests on top
2. 5:44 – wheels within wheels: outstanding bass solo & complex drum patter
3. 3:46 – philosophical bass monologue sets up moody abstraction
4. 5:08 – great drums envelop questioning piano and repeated bass riff
5. 3:49 – layered solo piano effects: deep, slow, and viscous like molasses
6. 5:30 – great mysterious rhythms behind analytical bass improvisation
7. 4:19 – cerebral: regular piano traces lines over fractured prepared piano
8. 5:02 – uptempo: churning rhythms, all three players have good solos
9. 4:02 – wide open: bass over spare piano & water sounds, trio interludes
10. 7:22 – tension: steady drum patter, refracted piano, bowed bass

[ Fo ] 05/14/11

Track Listing
1. Ando   6. Aka
2. Poursuite / Drum Page   7. Le Même Jour
3. Letter To György L.   8. Yompa
4. Barragán   9. Le Sixième Saut
5. Piano Page   10. Pointe De La Courte Dune / Bass Page