Artist: Niels Lan Doky Jazz Trio
Album: French Ballads
Genre: Contemporary Jazz, Post-Bop
Label: Blue Saphir
Released: 2007
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Tracklist:
- Sous Le Ciel De Paris (07:48)
- La Boheme (06:47)
- Hymne A L'Amour (07:03)
- I Love Paris (06:12)
- Syracuse (04:45)
- Les Feuilles Mortes (Autumn Leaves) (04:03)
- What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life (07:01)
- L'Aquoiboniste (05:56)
- Blues A La Mode (06:21)
- La Vie En Rose (04:45)
- Cafe En Plein Air (05:59)
- Les Trois Cloches (06:09)
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- Personnel:
- Piano – Niels Lan Doky
- Acoustic Bass – François Moutin
- Drums – Jeff Boudreaux
Released in Japan in 2001 by the Key'stone label with a French title "Cafe en plein air", this disc is only arriving this month in France with a more jazzy English title, "French Ballads", and a more sober cover. , thanks to the Blue Saphir label of Archipel Productions which recently made it possible to discover the pianist Niels Lan Doky also as a director with the film: " Between a Smile and a Tear: Once upon a time the Montmartre Jazz Club in Copenhagen ". A concert, still at the premises of L'Archipel in Paris, will also allow you to discover the trio on Tuesday October 16, 2007.
On the program for this recording are "standards" of French songs from Gainsbourd to Aznavour, from Piaf to Salvador ... arranged like jazz standards. We thus find " La Boheme", "la Vie en rose", "l'Hymne a l'amour", "Syracuse " already almost standards of jazz, because many musicians like to revisit them, which shows that French music lends itself very good at this arrangement exercise. Among these French melodies was "I love Paris" by Cole Porter and two compositions by Niels Lan Doky: "Blues a la mode" and "Cafe en plein air" which gave its title to the Japanese album. With double bassist Francois Moulin and drummer Jeff Boudreaux at his side, the pianist born to a Vietnamese father, a Danish mother, who studied in the United States and who chose to live in France offers a musical ballad which certainly will delight more than one lover of both French songs and jazz because the trio proves to be most effective in enriching these melodies with beautiful, delicate sounds that make them even more moving or more swinging than the original versions.