Guillaume Viltard Quintet at Cafe OTO

Free improvisation quintet helmed by Guillaume Viltard with two basses, two trumpets and percussion.

Jim Dvorak & Loz Speyer trumpets
David Leahy & Guillaume Viltard double-basses
Tony Marsh percussions

Guillaume Viltard:

"I don't know yet how to describe the music for it's a new band and pure improvised music : it does not mean anything for me to tell musicians what they should play or not.... well... what else could I say ?

The 'two bass concept', (surely an inheritance from the free jazz era as much as a personal inclination toward double-bass) has been in my mind for ages but I never had the opportunity to try it in a larger band (i'm not talking about bass duets or trios here)......

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Free improvisation quintet helmed by Guillaume Viltard with two basses, two trumpets and percussion.

Jim Dvorak & Loz Speyer trumpets
David Leahy & Guillaume Viltard double-basses
Tony Marsh percussions

Guillaume Viltard:

"I don't know yet how to describe the music for it's a new band and pure improvised music : it does not mean anything for me to tell musicians what they should play or not.... well... what else could I say ?

The 'two bass concept', (surely an inheritance from the free jazz era as much as a personal inclination toward double-bass) has been in my mind for ages but I never had the opportunity to try it in a larger band (i'm not talking about bass duets or trios here).... until I regularly met David Leahy in the LIO, and could feel that we were starting to play together rather than competing. To my ears, trumpet is the opposite of bass and I wanted to explore the feeling of musical space that this combination gives... Loz' and Jim's playing is really melodic in different moods, and I sometimes miss melodies in a free improv context ... but all this may also be a distant and unpredictable consequence of Bill Dixon's music. Tony will be playing his percussion set."

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