{"id":40005,"date":"2024-02-02T11:31:36","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T10:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/couleursjazz.fr\/?p=40005"},"modified":"2024-02-02T11:28:41","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T10:28:41","slug":"a-tonic-for-the-troops-realm-of-opportunities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/couleursjazz.fr\/fr\/a-tonic-for-the-troops-realm-of-opportunities\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tonic for the Troops &#8211; Realm of Opportunities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Apr\u00e8s un excellent \u201cAmbush\u201d en 2021, A Tonic for the Troops, le quartet de la bassiste norv\u00e9gienne Ellen Brekken nous propose \u00ab\u00a0Realm of Opportunities\u00a0\u00bb qui reprend les \u00e9l\u00e9ments et les partenaires du pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent enregistrement sur des compositions de la leadeuse. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">On a souvent tendance \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le jazz norv\u00e9gien comme soit \u00ab\u00a0atmosph\u00e9rique\u00a0\u00bb, dans la lign\u00e9e des enregistrements publi\u00e9s sur le label munichois <em>ECM<\/em>, soit comme exp\u00e9rimental sur les productions <em>Jazzland <\/em>ou<em> Hubro<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Ellen Brekken<\/strong>, quant \u00e0 elle, se situe clairement dans une autre esth\u00e9tique qui prolonge sans la copier la veine hardbop des ann\u00e9es 50\/60. C\u2019est donc une musique tant\u00f4t \u00e9minemment tonique et d\u00e9bordante d\u2019\u00e9nergie joyeuse, tant\u00f4t lyrique et m\u00e9lodique qui caract\u00e9rise le pr\u00e9sent CD.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Rien de pass\u00e9iste ici mais une volont\u00e9 d\u2019affirmer qu\u2019une veine intemporelle a parfaitement droit de cit\u00e9 dans le jazz d\u2019aujourd\u2019hui. Les compositions d\u2019<strong>Ellen Brekken <\/strong>\u2014 toutes int\u00e9ressantes, color\u00e9es et vivaces \u2014 sont servies par des musiciens de premier ordre qui, comme le pianiste <strong>Espen Berg<\/strong>, sont par ailleurs soit leaders de leurs propres formations soit sidemen tr\u00e8s demand\u00e9s dans diverses formations norv\u00e9giennes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Le jeu de <strong>Berg<\/strong> \u00e9voque par moments celui d\u2019un Monty Alexander et le sax t\u00e9nor p\u00eachu de <strong>Magnus Bakken<\/strong>fait parfois penser \u00e0 feu Jim Pepper.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Quant \u00e0 la batterie de<strong> Magnus Stefaniassen Eide<\/strong>, elle est \u00e0 la fois tonique et coloriste, dans la veine des batteurs de l\u2019\u00e9curie Blue Note. C\u2019est donc un disque qui distille un sentiment de joie palpable, dont le titre du quartet (un tonique pour les troupes) est en quelque sorte le manifeste esth\u00e9tique.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-radius: 12px;\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/1B0CmQOxL44AOX7BMvE07T?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Musiciens :<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Ellen Brekken<\/strong>\u00a0: contrebasse, compositions<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Magnus Bakken<\/strong>\u00a0: sax t\u00e9nor<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Espen Berg<\/strong>\u00a0: piano<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Magnus Stefaniassen Eide<\/strong>\u00a0: batterie<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><em><strong>Realm of Opportunities<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0est sorti le 2 octobre 2023 sous le label <a href=\"https:\/\/odinrecords.bandcamp.com\"><strong>Odin Records<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a9 Photos <strong>Julie Hrncirova<\/strong>`<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apr\u00e8s un excellent \u201cAmbush\u201d en 2021, A Tonic for the Troops, le quartet de la bassiste norv\u00e9gienne Ellen Brekken nous propose \u00ab\u00a0Realm of Opportunities\u00a0\u00bb qui reprend les \u00e9l\u00e9ments et les&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":178,"featured_media":40001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,13,202],"tags":[8557,6486,8558,8559,8560],"class_list":{"0":"post-40005","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-a-la-une","8":"category-actualite","9":"category-dans-les-bacs","10":"tag-ellen-brekken-fr","11":"tag-espen-berg","12":"tag-magnus-bakken-fr","13":"tag-magnus-stefaniassen-eide-fr","14":"tag-realm-of-opportunities-fr"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/couleursjazz.fr\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/couleursjazz.fr\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/couleursjazz.fr\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/couleursjazz.fr\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/178"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/couleursjazz.fr\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/couleursjazz.fr\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/couleursjazz.fr\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/couleursjazz.fr\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/couleursjazz.fr\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/couleursjazz.fr\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}