Release Date: 19 December 2008
Label: ECM Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 044001637520
Genres: Jazz  
Release Date: 19 December 2008
Label: ECM Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 044001637520
Genres: Jazz  
Description
In Touch is Yves Robert's third album appearance on ECM and his first as a leader for the label, following recordings with composer Heiner Goebbels (Ou bien le débarquement désastreux, 1994), and with Louis Sclavis (Les Violences de Rameau, 1996). Yves Robert's trombone has been one of the defining sounds of the new French jazz over the last two decades. He is a dynamic and subtle player who uses a wide range of idiosyncratic techniques with uncommon musicality. His trio with drummer Cyril Atef and cellist Vincent Courtois tours regularly under the project name La tendresse, the name implying its programme. They play a warm, lyrical musical that celebrates the sensuality of sound. Roberts compositions are wide open for improvisations that delight in the grain and texture of the sound, in dialogues and exchanges and shared creativity, in working together to make the music catch fire. It burns with a slow, sultry intensity.
Tracklisting
Julia Hulsmann Octet
Heinz Holliger; Marie-Lise Schupbach
Gary Peacock; Ralph Towner
Craig Taborn; Tomeka Reid; Ches Smith
Bjorn Meyer
Hakon Aase; Leo Svensson Sander; Ayumi Tanaka; Ole Morten Vagan; Thomas Stronen
Zakir Hussain; Hariprasad Chaurasia; John McLaughlin; Jan Garbarek
Keith Jarrett
Kirk Knuffke; Charlie Burnham; Thommy Andersson
Julia Hulsmann Octet
John Hart; Bill Moring; Tim Horner
Jan Gunnar Hoff; Jasper Somsen; Carsten Lindholm
Ivie Anderson
GingerBlackGinger
Gary Peacock; Ralph Towner
Gabriele di Franco Jazz Orchestra; Gabriele di Franco