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Julien Lourau: Quartet Saigon
by Bruce Lindsay
Marseilles-based saxophonist Julien Lourau brought Quartet Saigon together in 2007, and both the group and album are named for the city where they made their debut performance: Saigon, Vietnam. Quartet Saigon is an inventive and intelligent album and shows that a classic four-piece with talent and imagination can still create original tunes. The album consists mainly of original compositions, with the exception of one standard, the closing A House is Not a Home." The Burt Bacharach/Hal David ...
read moreJulien Lourau: The Rise
by Carlos Silva
I first heard Julien Lourau on Abbey Lincoln's Who Used to Dance. He played this tenor pocket solo a la Coltrane that immediately connected me not to his roots, but to his possibilities as a saxophonist. He was about to achieve a voice of his own. Thereafter I found him on Henri Texier's Mad Nomad(s). Texier called his septet Sonjal, meaning to think, to imagine, to muse, to dream," in Breton. So Lourau seemed a young promise of French jazz. ...
read moreBojan Z & Julien Lourau Seek Crowd Funding For New Recording
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All About Jazz
After 25 years of lively collaboration and friendship, pianist/keyboardist Bojan Z and saxophonist Julien Lourau are going to record their duo! The duo was created at the Pannonica Club in jny:Nantes, France, at the end of last century, in 1997 to be precise. Some of you still remember this perhaps. 17 years later, it seems relevant to us to fix these moments in a club as well – in this case at the Triton in Les Lilas, Paris – in ...
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