After a double album in 2021, “Fifty-fifty”, to pass the fifty-fifty mark, and a summit meeting with the Cuban pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba in 2023, the most Costa Rican of alto saxophonists, Pierrick Pédron, is back on his native lands.
This time, the virtuoso musician from Yffiniac revisits “The Shape of Jazz to Come (Something Else)”, a legendary album by Ornette Coleman released in 1959. Instead of the trumpet from the original album, it is here the pianist Carl-Henri Morisset (Archie Shepp, Arnaud Dolmen), “30 years old and extraordinary musicality”, according to Louis-Julien Nicolaou (Télérama). At his side, the essential double bassist Thomas Bramerie (Toots Thielemans, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Jacky Terrasson, etc.) and drummer Élie Martin-Charrière, “the drum major of today’s French jazz” according to Pascal Anquetil (Jazz Magazine). Freedom and excellence will take precedence during this exploration of the sources of free jazz, for these two evenings given at La Passerelle on Tuesday December 17 and Wednesday December 18.
Practical
Pierrick Pédron quartet, “A Shape of Ornette”, at La Passerelle Tuesday December 17 and Wednesday December 18 at 8 p.m. Prices: from €6 to €21. Contact: tel. 02 96 68 18 40. www.lapasserelle.info
