Manuel Rocheman

Manuel Rocheman – Magic Lights (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 43:57 minutes | 862 MB | Genre: Modern Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Bonsaï Music

Multi-awarded pianist, holder of rare harmonic knowledge, coveted and surprising sideman, signatory of 13 discs as leader, Manuel Rocheman opens with this new album an unprecedented chapter in his career: it is the first time that he invites a blower to his side. The latter fully shares his new aesthetic manifesto. Here, the themes sing, exult, and seem entirely devoted to the cult of a beauty that is found in every improvisation. Dialoguing in his azure sky with a Rick Margitza touched by grace, Manuel Rocheman finds his two long-term partners, with whom the music imposes itself with elegance and fluidity. “Magic Lights” makes us breathe the air of the peaks, enlivened by the momentum of a writing that is as poetic as it is effective.

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Manuel Rocheman – Misterio (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 00:42:41 minutes | 968 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: Q0buz | Digital Booklet | © Bonsaï Music

Manuel Rocheman has always distinguished by an obvious virtuosity and a sense of harmony that make him a refined pianist particularly at ease in the trio. Between 1990 and 2000, the old (unique) student of Martial Solal has signed many albums, all just in trio, with different rhythm sections. One of the most notable presented with bassist George Mraz and drummer Al Foster. Rocheman seems particularly at ease in this configuration where precise speech of his ideas and his scrupulous attention to harmonic pathways, may deploy the urge … To Misterio, the conversation did this time with Mathias Allamane on bass and Matthew Chazarenc on drums, both partners totally in tune with what the jazz virtuosity always justified.

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