Salon d'écoute
Salon d'écoute
Une étagère de disques qui méritent votre soirée. Chaque entrée mène vers une écoute.
Les fiches du salon sont rédigées en anglais.
Le jazz dans le monde
Modern · 1985 · Né(e) à South AfricaWater from an Ancient Well
Abdullah Ibrahim
The Cape Town pianist's septet turns exile into hymn; Ellington's warmth meets South African cadence on 'Mandela' and the title theme.
Morceau phare: Water from an Ancient Well
Free · 1975 · Né(e) à GermanyThe Wide Point
Albert Mangelsdorff
Frankfurt-born pioneer of trombone multiphonics — singing into the horn to sound chords — captured in a 1975 MPS trio with Elvin Jones and Palle Danielsson. First German artist and first trombone on the shelf.
Morceau phare: The Wide Point
Modern · 2007 · Né(e) à MexicoMigration
Antonio Sánchez
Mexico City-born drummer — Pat Metheny sideman turned leader — whose debut drew Metheny, Chick Corea and Chris Potter into the band. First Mexican artist and first drummer-led album for the shelf.
Morceau phare: Challenge Within
Latin · 1967 · Né(e) à BrazilWave
Antônio Carlos Jobim
Jobim moves from guitar to piano under Claus Ogerman's strings, stretching the bossa nova songbook into lush, near-wordless tone poems.
Morceau phare: Wave
Modern · 2008 · Né(e) à IsraelGently Disturbed
Avishai Cohen Trio
Kibbutz Kabri-born bassist whose trio with Shai Maestro and Mark Guiliana folded Israeli melody and odd meters into one of the defining piano-trio records of the 2000s — first double bass leader on the shelf.
Morceau phare: Seattle
Smooth · 1990 · Né(e) à NetherlandsSaxuality
Candy Dulfer
Amsterdam-born saxophonist whose Grammy-nominated debut took Dutch funk-jazz onto global charts — the first Dutch artist on the shelf and its first Smooth entry.
Morceau phare: Lily Was Here
Latin · 1998 · Né(e) à CubaBele Bele en La Habana
Chucho Valdés
The Irakere founder's first solo trio for Blue Note distills the Havana piano tradition — danzón to montuno — to its virtuosic core.
Morceau phare: Mambo Influenciado
Modern · 1999 · Né(e) à SwedenFrom Gagarin's Point of View
Esbjörn Svensson Trio
The Swedish trio that gave acoustic jazz a pop-rock spaciousness — melodies built for arenas without losing the intimacy of three players talking.
Morceau phare: From Gagarin's Point of View
Free · 1973 · Né(e) à ArgentinaChapter One: Latin America
Gato Barbieri
Barbieri brings his scalding tenor home, recording with South American folk players; protest and pan-American roots in one furious breath.
Morceau phare: Encuentros
Cool · 1977 · Né(e) à NorwayDis
Jan Garbarek
Garbarek's keening saxophone over Ralph Towner's guitar and a wind harp on a Norwegian shore — ECM's northern stillness made audible.
Morceau phare: Dis
Fusion · 1977 · Né(e) à FranceEnigmatic Ocean
Jean-Luc Ponty
Ponty's electric violin leads a four-part suite of crystalline fusion, with a young Allan Holdsworth carving the current beneath him.
Morceau phare: Enigmatic Ocean, Pt. 1
Latin · 1959 · Né(e) à BrazilChega de Saudade
João Gilberto
The first bossa nova album — Gilberto's whispered vocal and offbeat batida guitar invented a rhythmic language that reshaped jazz worldwide.
Morceau phare: Chega de Saudade
Modal · 1976 · Né(e) à CanadaGnu High
Kenny Wheeler
The Canadian trumpeter's ECM debut fronting Keith Jarrett's rhythm section; 'Heyoke' unfurls twenty-two minutes of luminous, searching lyricism.
Morceau phare: Heyoke
Fusion · 1971 · Né(e) à United KingdomThe Inner Mounting Flame
Mahavishnu Orchestra
Guitarist John McLaughlin's quintet welded Coltrane's intensity to rock voltage and odd meters — fusion's ground zero.
Morceau phare: Meeting of the Spirits
Modern · 1986 · Né(e) à FrancePianism
Michel Petrucciani
Petrucciani's Blue Note trio debut — a pianist of enormous touch and ballad gravity captured at the height of his lyric powers.
Morceau phare: The Prayer
Modal · 1972 · Né(e) à EthiopiaMulatu of Ethiopia
Mulatu Astatke
The father of Ethio-jazz — Jimma-born vibraphonist who fused Ethiopian pentatonic modes with Latin and jazz rhythm, giving the shelf its first African vibraphone voice.
Morceau phare: Mulatu
Swing · 1963 · Né(e) à CanadaNight Train
Oscar Peterson
The Montreal virtuoso reins in his technique for a blues-soaked trio date; Ray Brown and Ed Thigpen lay the rails beneath him.
Morceau phare: Night Train
Modern · 2014 · Né(e) à JapanRising Son
Takuya Kuroda
Kobe-born Blue Note trumpeter fusing post-bop with soul and hip-hop — a new global voice in the label's lineage.
Morceau phare: Rising Son
Swing · 1974 · Né(e) à JapanKogun
Toshiko Akiyoshi - Lew Tabackin Big Band
Akiyoshi reinvents the big band with tsuzumi drums and Noh-inflected voicings; the title piece mourns a soldier still fighting a war already lost.
Morceau phare: Kogun
Modern · 2010 · Né(e) à South KoreaSame Girl
Youn Sun Nah
Seoul-born vocalist who conquered European jazz — a fearless voice over Ulf Wakenius guitar. First Korean artist and first vocalist on the shelf.
Morceau phare: My Favorite Things
Classiques américains
Cool · 1961 · Né(e) à United StatesSunday at the Village Vanguard
Bill Evans Trio
Three musicians listening so closely they breathe together — the live trio record all others are measured against.
Morceau phare: Gloria's Step
Latin · 1965 · Né(e) à United StatesSoul Sauce
Cal Tjader
Tjader's vibraphone rides a Dizzy Gillespie–Chano Pozo theme into the crossover hit that carried Afro-Cuban jazz onto the pop charts.
Morceau phare: Soul Sauce (Guachi Guaro)
Hard Bop · 1959 · Né(e) à United StatesMingus Ah Um
Charles Mingus
Mingus's rowdy, gospel-soaked masterpiece — protest, tenderness, and swagger on one record.
Morceau phare: Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
Swing · 1956 · Né(e) à United StatesEllington at Newport
Duke Ellington
Paul Gonsalves' 27-chorus bridge whipped the Newport crowd into a frenzy and resurrected Ellington's orchestra overnight.
Morceau phare: Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue
Smooth · 1980 · Né(e) à United StatesWinelight
Grover Washington, Jr.
The record that set the smooth-jazz template without surrendering its soul, anchored by the Bill Withers hit 'Just the Two of Us.'
Morceau phare: Just the Two of Us
Hard Bop · 1960 · Né(e) à United StatesSoul Station
Hank Mobley
Mobley's masterpiece — his tenor with Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers, and Art Blakey in perfect hard-bop balance.
Morceau phare: This I Dig of You
Fusion · 1973 · Né(e) à United StatesHead Hunters
Herbie Hancock
Hancock traded Mwandishi abstraction for the clavinet funk of 'Chameleon' and made the first jazz album to go platinum.
Morceau phare: Chameleon
Modal · 1965 · Né(e) à United StatesA Love Supreme
John Coltrane
A four-part suite offered as prayer; Coltrane's quartet turns devotion into structure, from the chanted bass vamp of 'Acknowledgement' to the wordless 'Psalm.'
Morceau phare: Acknowledgement
Early Jazz · 1954 · Né(e) à United StatesLouis Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy
Louis Armstrong
Armstrong and the All-Stars reclaim Handy's blues catalog as living New Orleans music — trumpet and gravel voice in total command.
Morceau phare: St. Louis Blues
Modal · 1959 · Né(e) à United StatesKind of Blue
Miles Davis
The session that taught jazz to breathe in modes instead of chord changes — Davis, Coltrane, Adderley and Bill Evans improvising on sketches handed out that morning.
Morceau phare: So What
Free · 1959 · Né(e) à United StatesThe Shape of Jazz to Come
Ornette Coleman
Coleman's pianoless quartet threw out fixed chords for collective melody; 'Lonely Woman' announced a freedom the title did not exaggerate.
Morceau phare: Lonely Woman
Hard Bop · 1956 · Né(e) à United StatesSaxophone Colossus
Sonny Rollins
Rollins at his most muscular and witty — a calypso ('St. Thomas') and the architectural 'Blue 7' that Gunther Schuller analyzed as composition improvised in real time.
Morceau phare: St. Thomas
Latin · 1964 · Né(e) à United StatesGetz/Gilberto
Stan Getz & João Gilberto
The record that carried bossa nova to the world — whispered vocals, feather-light tenor, eternal cool.
Morceau phare: The Girl from Ipanema
Cool · 1959 · Né(e) à United StatesTime Out
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
An experiment in odd meters that became a phenomenon; Paul Desmond's 5/4 'Take Five' made a time signature something you could hum.
Morceau phare: Take Five
Bebop · 1957 · Né(e) à United StatesBrilliant Corners
Thelonious Monk
The title piece was so treacherous the master had to be spliced from takes — proof Monk's harmony bent bebop into angles no one else could play.
Morceau phare: Brilliant Corners
