Release Date: 01 December 2023
Label: Autre Distribution
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 3521383479322
Genres: Jazz Contemporary
Release Date: 01 December 2023
Label: Autre Distribution
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 3521381579338
Genres: Jazz Contemporary
Description
'An Indian's Life' continues Henri Texier's lifelong interest in native American history and culture, first illustrated in his critically acclaimed album 'An Indian's Week' (1993). "It's from a childhood passion", Texier explains, "Something very intimate but not intellectualized, so much, that connects me back to the little Parisian kid I was in the 50's, of course, later I added jazz to the cocktail, I linked the Native American genocide to the oppression of the Afro-Americans, and I identified with this wretched part of America through jazz music".
Once again, Henri Texier has produced a work of vibrating music in tune with the Native American psyche. All the compositions are his own (except Black and Blueby Fats Waller and Harry Brooks) and include pieces honouring his friends Carla Bley and Steve Swallow, the tutelary figure of Charles Mingus, Don Cherry, and Paul Motian.
Texier never fails to state where he comes from, turning his deeply welcoming music into a space of dialogue between traditions and generations, acknowledgment of others in all their differences.
Henri Texier: double bass, compositions
Sebastien Texier: saxophone, clarinet
Sylvain Rifet: saxophone, clarinet
Gautier Garrigue: drums
Manu Codjia: guitar
Carlo Nardozza: trumpet
Himiko Paganotti: voice
Recorded at Studio Gil Evans, Amiens, France, June 2023
Description
'An Indian's Life' continues Henri Texier's lifelong interest in native American history and culture, first illustrated in his critically acclaimed album 'An Indian's Week' (1993). "It's from a childhood passion", Texier explains, "Something very intimate but not intellectualized, so much, that connects me back to the little Parisian kid I was in the 50's, of course, later I added jazz to the cocktail, I linked the Native American genocide to the oppression of the Afro-Americans, and I identified with this wretched part of America through jazz music".
Once again, Henri Texier has produced a work of vibrating music in tune with the Native American psyche. All the compositions are his own (except Black and Blueby Fats Waller and Harry Brooks) and include pieces honouring his friends Carla Bley and Steve Swallow, the tutelary figure of Charles Mingus, Don Cherry, and Paul Motian.
Texier never fails to state where he comes from, turning his deeply welcoming music into a space of dialogue between traditions and generations, acknowledgment of others in all their differences.
Henri Texier: double bass, compositions
Sebastien Texier: saxophone, clarinet
Sylvain Rifet: saxophone, clarinet
Gautier Garrigue: drums
Manu Codjia: guitar
Carlo Nardozza: trumpet
Himiko Paganotti: voice
Recorded at Studio Gil Evans, Amiens, France, June 2023
Tracklisting
Tracklisting
Murray Head
Sylvaine Helary & Orchestre Incandescent
Django Reinhardt & Stephane Grappelli
Sylvain Rifflet
Airelle Besson, Sebastian Sternal & Jonas Burgwinkel
Dead Chic
Jean-Francois Pauvros & Alain Mahe
Gregory Privat
Sultan Stevenson
John Patitucci
Tommy Whittle & Alan Barnes
Xhosa Cole
John Clayton & Mulgrew Miller
George Cables
Sylvaine Helary & Orchestre Incandescent
The Exu
