the essential
This will be the last concert of the departmental tour of Benjamin Moussay and Eric Chafer, orchestrated by the Parvis in partnership with Traverse and Jazz MDA.
They were made to get along, these two musicians who can play just as well on international stages as in front of a local audience.
“A concert is the energy of the moment, in the atmosphere of the lights, the music is renewed every evening.”
A complicity
which is displayed and heard
They will tell you as much about the mountains as about their family life here, about living well, writing, composing. But when they play, it’s their music that speaks to you. The meeting was obvious. Éric Chafer “did not choose to run around the world or the limelight”. From his imposing silhouette that we meet at the Bagnères-de-Bigorre market or on stage, we know him best handling the bass and the tuba, “instruments that set me free”. Benjamin Moussay, for his part, says he is “a fan of the mountains, a need to reunite with family and friends. With Eric we have often played together, we love it”. And if they talk about a very interesting laboratory, the meeting with the public, the live interaction is important to them.
For Eric, Benjamin is an incredible pianist, if they tried their hand at the piano harmonica duo, their complicity pushed them to go beyond a few pieces and behind the scenes it is said that a record label Hautes-Pyrénées will perhaps come will soon formalize the meeting.
The collective imagination at the heart of music
Of course, they were both asked about the title of this tour. It made them smile… With their benevolent mane… But not growl!
A bear coming out of its den “is also today’s music which is inspired by all the others”. So let your child’s soul be lulled by jazz standards and surprising but always melodic and delicate creations, follow the paths of two exceptional musicians: Mozart or Chopin are never far away, Galliano, Eddy Louiss are just as careful as Fritz Kreisler.
Between the one who was Laureate of the Martial Solal competition, therefore of the universal jazz piano, and the harmonica player who gives in a silky tone a more intimate approach but also as an acrobat of the exercise, the emotion awaits you from the first to the last note, and it is not the public present at the various concerts of this tour who will tell you the opposite.
