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Guillaume Viltard Quintet at Cafe OTO
Courtesy of John Chantler | Posted on March 9, 2012
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Mon, March 19, 2012
8PM
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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)......