Frederic Loiseau

Frederic Loiseau Meets Carlton Schroeder: Red Shoes

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
June 3, 2007

In a recent AAJ interview, pianist Guillaume de Chassy called guitarist Frédéric Loiseau the “French Jim Hall." Without belaboring the comparison, the piano- guitar duets on Red Shoes are less the French version of Hall's recent, excellent duets with Geoff Keezer on Free Association (Artist Share, 2006) than the Gallic equivalent of Undercurrent (Blue Note, 1962), the guitarist's fabled encounter with pianist Bill Evans. Clean, limpid lines; a mise en scène conducive to reverie; a visceral rhythmic accompaniment: these are ...