Title: Zeitgeist Artist: Laurent Cugny Label: Fremeaux & Assoc. FR Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 3448960860123 Genre: Jazz Release Date: 2023-08-04 Number of Discs: 1
Maybe this is "Jazz according to Laurent Cugny." Here he chooses some classic material - standards from Duke Ellington, Joe Zawinul, The Beatles, Michel Jonasz - and then introduces a few of his own compositions. The result is Zeitgeist, an album written in a universal language whose music traverses different periods and transcends melodies. Pianist, arranger, composer (and music lecturer), bandleader Laurent Cugny here conducts the best musicians France can offer, in a ten-piece orchestra whose instruments are played with precision and brilliance. Zeitgeist is masterfully electric, taking it's colours from Cugny's taste for the avant-garde at the dawn of the Seventies: it makes you think, and it gives you a kick. A jubilant record where Cugny shows a unique sense of melody, and his vision of jazz history... with a boundless joy in sharing his own definition of jazz. Augustin BONDOUX / Patrick FRÉMEAUX
Tracks: 1.1 Liviore 1.2 Woodstock 1.3 Boogie Woogie Waltz 1.4 Air Que L'on Respire 1.5 Pyramidal Vision 1.6 I Want You 1.7 Salamero 1.8 Mr Foster 1.9 Mood Indigo
