ZEITGEIST

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 its 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

LIVIORE • WOODSTOCK • BOOGIE WOOGIE WALTZ • L’AIR QUE L’ON RESPIRE • PYRAMIDAL VISION • I WANT YOU • SALAMERO • MR FOSTER • MOOD INDIGO.

Laurent Cugny : piano électrique Fender Rhodes, arrangements, direction
Pierre de Bethmann : piano électrique Fender Rhodes
Laurent Coulondre : orgue Hammond B3
Manu Codjia : guitare
Jérôme Regard : contrebasse (1, 3, 4, 5)
Stéphane Huchard : batterie
Antoine Paganotti : batterie (1, 3, 4, 5, 6)
Quentin Ghomari : trompette
Martin Guerpin : saxophone soprano
Stéphane Guillaume : clarinette basse
Clément Daldosso : contrebasse (2, 6, 7, 8, 9)
Élie Martin-Charrière : batterie (2, 7, 8, 9)