Artist: John Hadfield, Sylvain Rifflet, Jozef Dumoulin, Chris Jennings
Album: John Hadfield’s Paris Quartet
Genre: Jazz
Release Date: 2022
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24bit, 44,1 kHz
Duration: 53:21
Total Tracks: 9
Total Size: 599 MB

Tracklist:

01. John Hadfield featuring Sylvain Rifflet, Jozef Dumoulin and Chris Jennings – Catacombs (04:43)
02. John Hadfield featuring Sylvain Rifflet, Jozef Dumoulin and Chris Jennings – The River (08:02)
03. John Hadfield featuring Sylvain Rifflet, Jozef Dumoulin and Chris Jennings – Barbès (04:01)
04. John Hadfield featuring Sylvain Rifflet, Jozef Dumoulin and Chris Jennings – Secret Language (05:35)
05. John Hadfield featuring Sylvain Rifflet, Jozef Dumoulin and Chris Jennings – Bonne Nouvelle (06:34)
06. John Hadfield featuring Sylvain Rifflet, Jozef Dumoulin and Chris Jennings – Castle of Water (08:12)
07. John Hadfield featuring Sylvain Rifflet, Jozef Dumoulin and Chris Jennings – Passage Brady (06:10)
08. John Hadfield featuring Sylvain Rifflet, Jozef Dumoulin and Chris Jennings – La Fourche (05:09)
09. John Hadfield featuring Sylvain Rifflet, Jozef Dumoulin and Chris Jennings – Fragments (04:50)

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This album explores the experience of foreigners in France. I see myself as belonging to a long genealogy of American artists who moved to Paris to escape the USA, a country that does not support its creators. Unlike my illustrious predecessors, I arrived in France during a pandemic that paralyzed the Parisian artistic scene. Paradoxically, the cancellation of live performances made it easier for me to collaborate with Parisian musicians and focus on composing. Rooted in the values and approaches of jazz, this album offers a musical view of Paris in the Covid-19 era. The ensemble’s direction, concept, and instrumentation is electronic and contemporary, using musical languages outside of the jazz tradition. Notably it mobilizes concepts from South Indian Carnatic music and North Africa. If French jazz musicians tend to mystify the New York and American music scene, having made the reverse journey, my music celebrates the mixing of culture that makes Paris a musical center.