New Jazz Musette Richard Galliano, Sylvain Luc, André Ceccarelli and Philippe Aerts

• 1 A French Touch 03:30
• 2 Billie 05:34
• 3 Coloriage 05:26
• 4 Nice Blues 04:18
• 5 Ballade Pour Marion 07:00
• 6 Fou Rire 04:17
• 7 Giselle 05:10
• 8 Laurita 04:38
• 9 Love Day 06:10
• 10 Waltz For Nicky 03:38
• 11 Ten Year Ago 03:31
• 12 Tango Pour Claude 04:16
• 13 Viaggio 05:18
• 14 Lili 03:37
• 15 Beritwaltz 05:10
• 16 Spleen 04:20
• 17 Azul Tango 04:03
• 18 Aurore 05:24
• Total Runtime 01:25:20

Info for New Jazz Musette

Already 30 years that his first album as a band leader, «Spleen», was released with the “New Musette” Quartet.

Already 30 years that he restored the image of a so called old fashioned instrument, bound to play for Saturday nights ballrooms!

Already 30 years that he is navigating in all kinds of musical styles, flirting with salsa, merging with tango, without losing his soul, deeply anchored in his French-Italian roots.

Only 5 years on the other hand that Richard Galliano started to express his incredible talent in the nest of classical music. One best-seller on the label Deutsche Grammophon with the ‘Bach Project’, then a tribute to Nino Rota and the Vivaldi “Four Seasons”, all titles released by the prestigious German label. Got even an award at the French “Victoires de la Musique” in 2014, as a composer.

Richard Galliano has chosen to celebrate his 30 years of career with his friends and gifted musicians: “I consider my record “Spleen” (1985) as my first “New Musette” project. 30 years after …it’s with that spirit that I feel like performing again my favourite compositions and introduce the “New Jazz Musette” The “Musette” is an old Italo/French style that makes Jazz musicians so ironically reluctant and afraid….

However the “Musette” (java, waltz …) in France, like the “Blues” in the States and the “Tango” in Argentina appeared all around the world at the same period of time, the beginning of the 20th Century. Those styles are all the fruits and the fusion of a human and cultural blend: Italians and French musicians for “Musette”, Italians and Argentinians for “Tango”, Africans and Americans for “Blues”. All those migrants, far from their motherland, cried through a new musical form, mixing rage and melancholia , so was the “Blues” in US, so was the “Milonga” in Argentina, so was the suburb complaints of the “Musette” in France.

“Piaf is the biggest Blues singer” said Louis Armstrong.

Nowadays, I create and recreate the “New Musette” because I feel that this music cannot be performed like in those years of the 30’s. I am playing this music now by joining in my strongest influences: PIAZZOLLA, COLTRANE, BILL EVANS, DEBUSSY…

Richard Galliano, acccorodion
Sylvain Luc, chitarra
Philippe Aerts, double bass

Richard Galliano
began learning the piano and accordion at the age of 4 with his father Lucien Galliano, who was himself an accordionist and teacher. Particularly talented, he quickly enrolled at the Nice Conservatory, which at the time was run by organist Pierre Cochereau. There he took lessons in harmony, counterpoint and trombone. He came to Paris in 1975 and met Claude Nougaro, who was his friend, accordionist and conductor until 1983. The author and the composer found each other. They got on wonderfully.

Many songs were to emerge from this close collaboration that have become part of the heritage of French song. The second decisive meeting took place in 1980 with the Argentinian composer and bandoneonist Astor Piazzolla. Astor strongly encouraged him to create the French "New Musette", as he himself had invented the Argentinian "New Tango". During his long and prolific career, Richard Galliano recorded more than 50 albums under his own name.

He has also worked with an impressive number of renowned artists and musicians, including Chet Baker, Eddy Louiss, Ron Carter, Wynton Marsalis, Serge Reggiani, Claude Nougaro, Barbara, Juliette Greco as well as Nigel Kennedy and various orchestras. During his world tours, he has performed in the most prestigious theatres, including the Lincoln Center in New York, the Victoria Hall in Geneva, the Accademia Santa Cécilia in Rome, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris and the Théâtre Marinsky in Saint Petersburg. In 1997, Richard Galliano was honoured with a "Victoire de la Musique Jazz" for his album New York Tango.

In 2009 he was appointed Officer and in 2011 Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters. In 2010, he received the "SACEM Prize for the best pedagogical work for the accordion method", which he and his father Lucien Galliano realised with the Lemoine publishing house. In 2010, he recorded a Bach album with Deutsche Grammophon, which set a record with 70,000 discs sold. He won the "Victoire de la Musique Classique" in 2014 and also received the "Best Composer of the Year 2014" award.

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