Heillig Manoeuvre

Heillig Manoeuvre: Inmotion

by Jerry D'Souza
April 9, 2004

Henry Heillig describes the music his band plays as contemporary jazz that honours tradition. Well, that’s as good a way of putting it as any. While the word contemporary is most often the quicksand of jazz, the band members have enough focus not to slip when they get into that terrain.

The testimony to tradition comes in the delightful, catchy “Ladybug Waltz,” a radiant hue infused on the piano by Craig Harley and then Jake Langley. Add ...

Heillig Manoeuvre: Inmotion

by John Kelman
April 5, 2004

Heillig Manoeuvre’s sophomore disk, Inmotion , manages to straddle a fine line: harmonically and rhythmically rich enough to intrigue the more serious jazz listener, it also maintains a level of melodic accessibility and groove to appeal to the more casual listener. Successful on both counts, this is a record that covers a lot of territory but never loses site of engaging its audience. “I was brought up in a home where music was a social event,” says bassist/leader Henry Heillig. ...