Artist: Raphael Imbert Project
Album: Heavens (Amadeus & The Duke)
Genre: Contemporary Jazz, Classical
Label: Jazz Village
Released: 2013
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Tracklist:
- Dancers In Love
- Such Sweet Thunder
- Quintette avec clarinette, K. 581: Allegretto con variazioni
- Das Lied der Trennung, K. 519
- Ethiopi-K23
- My Love
- Les Dissonances, K. 465
- Introduction / Heaven
- Zwei geharnischte Männer
- Black And Tan Fantasy
- A Cenar Teco
- Praise God
- Man Came To Jesus
- Happy Go Lucky Local / The Beautiful American
- New World A-Comin'
- Come Sunday
- Die Himmlischen
- Ave verum corpus, K. 618
- My Love (musical saw version) (Bonus Track)
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- Personnel:
- Raphaël Imbert - saxophones, bass clarinet, piano (2)
- Marion Rampal - vocals
- Thomas Weirich - guitars
- Simon Sieger - trombone, piano (1, 14, 18), organ (18)
- André Rossi - piano, organ (18)
- Pierre Fénichel - double bass
- Jean-Luc Difraya - drums, vocal
- Florent Héau - clarinet
- Quatuor Manfred
- Marie Béreau - violin
- Luigi Vecchioni - violin
- Emmanuel Haratyk - viola
- Christian Wolff - cello
This project creates an exciting new bridge between Western classical music and African-American music. With his band of virtuosos, Raphaël Imbert weaves together the common themes in the worlds of Ellington and Mozart. Making each echo to the other's sound, he conjoins them in a musical marriage which brilliantly merges their works. Heavens is an immense modern jam session, drawing on eclectic multicultural sources: blues, chamber music, secular song, German lied, sacred music, stomp, gospel, opera...
Inspired by both written and oral traditions, driven by improvisation and a swinging momentum, the saxophonist reveals the genius of these two great Masters. He brings to the fore their humour and their spirituality, a spirituality which at times touches the universal imagination. If their worlds combine so harmoniously, it is also because the three creators of this exceptional work, Mozart, Ellington and Imbert, are all blessed with the same innocence, the same passion, the same joy in sharing. In Heavens, the music lover is raised to a rainbow paradise where the hearts of jazz and classical music collide and beat together, and where music is as much a state of mind as a question of style. How happy are we to experience the union of this trinity!