Mikkel Ploug 4et Feat. Mark Turner at Jazzdor Au Fossé Des Treize

For almost twenty years now, Danish guitarist Mikkel Ploug and American tenor saxophonist Mark Turner have nurtured a fruitful and stimulating transatlantic artistic complicity. In this elegant, organic quartet, they develop a music that is both lyrical and abstract, bringing out tender melodies with assertive pop/folk harmonies, and intense atmospheric, floating and ethereal sequences. Taking a few detours into the repertoire of great classical and contemporary composers such as Carl Nielsen, Bent Sørensen and Valentin Silvestrov, Mikkel Ploug delightfully blurs the boundaries between improvisation and composition, the better to explore the great poetic spaces of contemporary Scandinavian jazz....

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For almost twenty years now, Danish guitarist Mikkel Ploug and American tenor saxophonist Mark Turner have nurtured a fruitful and stimulating transatlantic artistic complicity. In this elegant, organic quartet, they develop a music that is both lyrical and abstract, bringing out tender melodies with assertive pop/folk harmonies, and intense atmospheric, floating and ethereal sequences. Taking a few detours into the repertoire of great classical and contemporary composers such as Carl Nielsen, Bent Sørensen and Valentin Silvestrov, Mikkel Ploug delightfully blurs the boundaries between improvisation and composition, the better to explore the great poetic spaces of contemporary Scandinavian jazz.

Voilà près de vingt ans maintenant que le guitariste danois Mikkel Ploug et le saxophoniste ténor américain Mark Turner nourrissent une complicité artistique transatlantique féconde et stimulante. Au sein de ce quartet aussi élégant qu’organique, ils développent une musique à la fois lyrique et abstraite, faisant surgir de mélodies tendres aux harmonies pop/folk affirmées, d’intenses séquences atmosphériques, flottantes et éthérées. S’autorisant également quelques détours du côté du répertoire de grands compositeurs classiques et contemporains comme Carl Nielsen, Bent Sørensen ou Valentin Silvestrov, Mikkel Ploug brouille avec délectation les frontières entre improvisation et composition pour mieux explorer ces grands espaces poétiques propres au jazz scandinave contemporain.

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