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Matthieu Bordenave
He has performed with some of most outstanding musicians including Lee Kontitz, Henning Sieverts, Christian Elsässer, Florian Weber, Shinya Fukumori, Peter O'Mara, Geoff Goodman, Walter Lang.
2014 brings us the release of his first CD with the trio „Le Café Bleu International“, "plays Edith Piaf" on tradition label Enja records.
2015, he releases his first CD in Quintet with the American guitarist Geoff Goodmam: "Inverted Forest" on Doublemoon Records.
2016, comes the second CD with "Le Café Bleu International", "tells bedtime stories" on Enja Records.
On November 2017, he released his new quartet project "Grand Angle" with the CD Titel "Terre de Sienne" on Enja Records as well.
On February 2018, he made his debut on the legendary label ECM Records with the Shinya Fukumori trio.
Since 2009, he teaches at the Landshut Music Conservatory jazz saxophone.
He additionally teach since 2015 classical clarinet at the Sankt Godehart Music High School.
From 2012 to 2014 he was assistant from Prof Claus Reichstaller for Jazz Harmony at the University for Music and performing Art Munich.
Matthieu Bordenave is a Selmer Artist.
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Matthieu Bordenave: The Blue Land
by Mike Jurkovic
Getting across the great open land beneath big sky country is full of epic moments. The Blue Land, French saxophonist Matthieu Bordenave's second for ECM, is that migrant's diary. As he so skillfully rendered on his 2020 ECM debut La Traversée, Bordenave again enters the studio conjoined with the assertive mood swings of bassist Patrice Moretand the rapidly moving divertimentos of pianist Florian Weber. Only this time he adds to that valorous energy the meatier, Art Blakey-like sentiments ...
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by Friedrich Kunzmann
The French word La Traversée may equally refer to a crossing, a passage or a journey. Surely related yet with disparate meanings, the three terms have a sense of motion in common. How defined that motion is and whether it's backward, forward, or even sideways, remains unknown. The only thing for certain is its determination to lead from one point to another, much like a river flowing from its source to the ocean--"River" being the title that bookends French saxophonist ...
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La Porte Entrouverte
From: The Blue LandBy Matthieu Bordenave