Jazzlab Orchestra - LOGUSLABUSMUZIKUS (Friday, October 29th on Effendi Records)

Montreal’s JAZZLAB ORCHESTRA has been a Canadian jazz institution since 2004. For over 15 years, the multi-generational ensemble of Montreal’s finest improvisors has explored a wide variety of musical styles and approaches to writing and playing. Always original, every project they’ve undertaken has been inspired and audacious.

Practically the only group of its kind in Canada, the group has released seven albums and performed more then 300 concerts at many of the most prestigious festivals and venues across North America and Europe, including New York’s Jazz at Lincoln Center, the New Morning and Café de la Danse in Paris, Casa del Jazz in Rome, the Grande Teatro in Sicily, the Jazz Station in Brussels, and at the Budapest Music Center. Over the years, their concerts have featured guest appearances by many of jazz music’s leading lights, including Donny McCaslin, Mark Feldman, Ted Nash, Michael Blake, Zhao Ke, Francois Théberge, Stephane Belmondo, and Don Thompson.

LOGUSLABUSMUZIKUS - Jazzlab’s newest opus - features nine new pieces by bassist and composer Auguste Le Prez, all of which reflect the spirit of modern jazz today. It’s an exciting and dynamic record executed masterfully by the band. Each member manages to simultaneously lift the band up while also staking out their place as a distinct individual voice in the group. As Jazzlab Orchestra continues to evolve, the temperature continues to rise…

1. La Grande Sauve Majeur 10:41

2. Humor de la Seconda Noche… 6:35

3. Pum la suite 10:15

4. Bluesy del Lunedi 6:57

5. Criucm 8:07

6. Le Grain blanc dans les Voiles 6:28

7. Casse-pattes/casse-gueule/casse-tête 11:15

8. Lunes & Marées 7:55

9. Compte-rendu II 7:29

Mario Allard - Soprano & Alto Sax, Clarinet

Benjamin Deschamps - Soprano & Tenor Sax, Flute

Samuel Blais - Soprano Sax & Bass Clarinet

Jacques Kuba Séguin - Trumpet

Thomas Morelli-Bernard - Trombone

Félix Stüssi - Piano

Alain Bédard - Double Bass

Michel Lambert - Drums

LOGUSLABUSMUZIKUS will be released worldwide on Friday, October 29th on Effendi Records.

www.effendirecords.com

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Benjamin Deschamps - No Codes (2018)

Benjamin Deschamps, saxophonist and composer presents the new music collective No Codes. The album was released on September 7th 2018

Following the release of his second record Demi-Nuit in 2017, Benjamin – who was named Révélation Radio-Canada Jazz 2017-2018 – puts together the music collective No Codes.

The quartet, made up of rising star canadian saxophonist Benjamin Deschamps (alto sax), highly acclaimed veteran Frank Lozano (tenor sax), Sébastien Pellerin (bass) and Louis-Vincent Hamel (drums), takes its inspiration freely from the standards of the great American song book to recreate new compositions.

After presenting his two first records all around Canada and being nominated for the Halifax Jazz Festival TD Rising Star award and the Montreal Internation Jazz Festival TD Grand Award, Deschamps is presenting us this new project with an urge of performing.

Borrowing from the rhythms and the colours from the Andes, Motown or even Free Jazz, No Codes offers a musical research inspired from the Jazz tradition without actually copying it in its form.

The band, without any instrumental or harmonic support, bets on its interaction, its listening and its spontaneity. The record No Codes is the product of a collective work of research and a desire to explore and to push the boundaries of music. This is one of the last record to be ever recorded in the mythical Studio 12 in Montreal's CBC and they achieved to capture a very intimate sound worthy of the golden years of the great jazz recordings.

Benjamin Deschamps, Alto saxophone

Frank Lozano, Tenor saxophone

Sebastien Pellerin, Bass

Louis-Vincent Hamel, Drums

01. Rules of Compression

02. Cream Muffin Treat

03. Song For Daniel

04. Interlude 1

05. Cool Cats

06. No I Didn't

07. Double Meaning

08. Interlude 2

09. Quick Fix

10. Reconciliation

11. My Steps

www.benjamindeschamps.com

Benjamin Deschamps Quintet - Demi-Nuit (MCM Records 2017)

In 2014, Benjamin Deschamps released his first record What do we know with his quartet with montreal's label Oddsound. Record on which Frank Lozano joined the group on the piece Cauchemar Cyclique.

With everything going well for them, the quartet wins the Rimouski's Festi Jazz Grand Award in 2013 and are in the competition for Montreal's International Jazz Festival TD Grand Award in 2014. Same year they completed a tour of 10 shows in Québec's region of Gaspésie and Bas-St-Laurent.

Their second record Demi-Nuit, will be released in April 2017 with the label MCM Records.

1. Crépuscule 1:42

2. Demi-nuit 5:20

3. Monélia 5:57

4. Prophétie, pt. 1 5:53

5. Prophétie, pt. 2 7:05

6. Prophétie, pt. 3 8:16

7. L'oubli 5:15

8. Slow Cooking 6:44

9. Si et seulement si 5:53

Benjamin Deschamps - saxophone / composition

Jean-Nicolas Trottier - trombone

Charles Trudel - piano

Sébastien Pellerin - double bass

Al Bourgeois - drums