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From left to right: Vincent Lê Quang, Daniel Humair and Stéphane Kerecki, in December 2021. OLIVIER DEGEN
For its third season, still one Thursday per month, Jazz à l’Ecuje (European Jewish cultural and university space) confirms its success. Since 1963, the Parisian venue, and in particular its Elie Wiesel Institute, where meetings, teachings and conferences are organized, has the ambition, according to its director Gad Ibgui, to establish “an open and permanent dialogue with the city”. A place “where everyone can participate in a collective experience in a permanent mixing of ideas and people, without exclusion”.
It’s a successful meeting. Welcome, comfort of the room, care of the acoustic conditions, nothing to say. The evenings are broadcast by Radio France. This attention to detail is undoubtedly necessary for success, but it is not sufficient. The secret is programming. Entrusted from the start to the pianist and composer Olivier Hutman, it is a model of balance. Not particularly known for the art of showing off, Olivier Hutman could rightly boast of an impressive career. He was born in Boulogne-Billancourt in 1954. Very classical piano training, while obtaining a very new doctorate at the time (“Urban music in Ghana”), under the direction of Jean Rouch.
After his first trio, Moravagine (with Denis Barbier and Mino Cinelu), he accompanies all the great European and American soloists. The recipe is very simple: you have to be able to do it. His first recording as a leader earned him the Boris Vian Prize from the Jazz Academy in 1984.
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All this to say that, unconcerned with programming himself, he has his life and his experience (his kindness too) for a chubby address book. He has just published a duet album with the griot Lamine Cissokho (magnificent kora) on Cristal Records. All the Thursdays that we were able to attend were all strong dates, due to leading artists.
Highlight of the year 2023, Daniel Humair Trio, with Vincent Lê Quang (sax born in Aurillac in 1975, international career, composer, professor at the Paris Conservatory) and Stéphane Kerecki, collector of prizes and distinctions (one of most beautiful contemporary double bass sounds, dizzying “technique”). He has just published A Modern Songbook (Sony Music) in duo with pianist Thomas Enhco.
On stage Thursday December 21 at 8:30 p.m., Daniel Humair, born in 1938, is an international drum monument. His last appearance as a trio in Paris (Hervé Sellin, piano, Jean-Paul Celea, double bass) presented on March 22 at the Bal Blomet their New Stories edited by Frémeaux. Humair is known for his practice of trios, this circulation of unconscious minds in the open air. Recognized painter as well as fundamental drummer.
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