Michel Donato – Michel Donato et ses amis Québécois (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Michel Donato – Michel Donato et ses amis Québécois (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 46:47 minutes | 1018 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Effendi Records

Contrary to what the title of his previous recordings on Effendi (Michel Donato et ses amis européens, vol. Effendi (Michel Donato and his European friends, vol. 1 and 2, FND050 and FND072, released in 2004 and 2014), the inescapable Montreal double bassist does not only have friends across the Atlantic.

On album, released in time for his eightieth birthday, he is back with some local friends. with a few local friends. And not just any friends!

Surrounded by saxophonist Frank Lozano, pianist François Bourassa and drummer Pierre Tanguay, Donato offered us two superb tributes to the man he briefly rubbed shoulders with on stage forty on stage forty-five years ago and whom he likes to call the “Chopin of jazz”: Autour de Bill Evans (Effendi FND 112, 2011); and Re: Bill Evans (Malasartes, MAM 031, 2018). On Michel Donato and his Quebec friends, music lovers will find the finesse of the arrangements, the cohesion of the group the cohesion of the group and the fluidity of the message that made their previous opuses so successful. By appropriating standards associated with Evans and compositions by the pianist, this quartet wanted to, Pierre Tanguay says, “to do a beautiful project, something classic; […] a pure form of jazz. pure form of jazz.

Tracklist:

1. Michel Donato – For Prez (04:50)
2. Michel Donato – Special Love (05:33)
3. Michel Donato – Just So (03:57)
4. Michel Donato – Djuni (05:08)
5. Michel Donato – Retour (04:29)
6. Michel Donato – Petite brise (05:43)
7. Michel Donato – Never Met Her (04:19)
8. Michel Donato – 16 Juin (04:04)
9. Michel Donato – Départ (08:38)

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