AMG, the future of jazz! Behind the three letters, four musicians with infinite talent. Because the 38Riv has been a laboratory of creation and experimentation for three years, it offers each of the band's musicians an evening of concerts between AMG pieces and improvisations.First carte blanche given to double bassist Anthony Jouravsky.AMGWhat is a jazz band? At what point do four musicians, each with their own personal history and background as listeners, instrumentalists and improvisers, become an entity that transcends individuality and creates a sound together?For pianist Antoine Fleury, double bassist Anthony Jouravsky, drummer Mailo Rakotonanahary and saxophonist Keïta Janota, this chemistry came to fruition one evening in March 2022 on the stage of Sunset, one of the legendary clubs on the rue des Lombards in Paris. Two months later, it was within the walls of the no less legendary Pigalle studio that AMG (as the four of them called themselves) recorded for the first time together what was to become their eponymous debut album, re-released in a revised and expanded form as AMG EXTENDED in December 2024 to rave reviews.Since then, the AMG quartet has been a fixture in most of the capital's clubs - the Duc des Lombards, the Baiser Salé, the 38Riv, La Gare, La Petite Halle... - winning all the springboard competitions in which it takes part, and imposing this acronym, borrowed from a musical theory elaborated by saxophonist and flautist Yusef Lateef, in the jazz microcosm.Precisely because AMG, in addition to being a gathering of inhabited prodigies, is a group, a sound, an energy, a spirit, a fire. At once grounded and modern, alternately feverish and soothing, AMG's music flies in the face of many contemporary clichés: jazz, as approached and practiced by these twentysomethings who cite the giants of modern jazz as much as their disciples of the new millennium or the young guard of French rap, is a music of the 21st century. And it doesn't need to be artificially crossover, or thought of as music to be listened to standing up, to be relevant in the eyes of the public of 2025, who long ago dismissed the question of musical genres and understood the power and universal scope of instrumental music....
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AMG, the future of jazz! Behind the three letters, four musicians with infinite talent. Because the 38Riv has been a laboratory of creation and experimentation for three years, it offers each of the band's musicians an evening of concerts between AMG pieces and improvisations.First carte blanche given to double bassist Anthony Jouravsky.AMGWhat is a jazz band? At what point do four musicians, each with their own personal history and background as listeners, instrumentalists and improvisers, become an entity that transcends individuality and creates a sound together?For pianist Antoine Fleury, double bassist Anthony Jouravsky, drummer Mailo Rakotonanahary and saxophonist Keïta Janota, this chemistry came to fruition one evening in March 2022 on the stage of Sunset, one of the legendary clubs on the rue des Lombards in Paris. Two months later, it was within the walls of the no less legendary Pigalle studio that AMG (as the four of them called themselves) recorded for the first time together what was to become their eponymous debut album, re-released in a revised and expanded form as AMG EXTENDED in December 2024 to rave reviews.Since then, the AMG quartet has been a fixture in most of the capital's clubs - the Duc des Lombards, the Baiser Salé, the 38Riv, La Gare, La Petite Halle... - winning all the springboard competitions in which it takes part, and imposing this acronym, borrowed from a musical theory elaborated by saxophonist and flautist Yusef Lateef, in the jazz microcosm.Precisely because AMG, in addition to being a gathering of inhabited prodigies, is a group, a sound, an energy, a spirit, a fire. At once grounded and modern, alternately feverish and soothing, AMG's music flies in the face of many contemporary clichés: jazz, as approached and practiced by these twentysomethings who cite the giants of modern jazz as much as their disciples of the new millennium or the young guard of French rap, is a music of the 21st century. And it doesn't need to be artificially crossover, or thought of as music to be listened to standing up, to be relevant in the eyes of the public of 2025, who long ago dismissed the question of musical genres and understood the power and universal scope of instrumental music.
AMG, le futur du jazz ! Derrière ses trois lettres, quatre musiciens avec un talent infini. Parce-que le 38Riv se veut être un laboratoire de créations et d’expérimentations depuis trois ans, il offre à chacun des musiciens du band une soirée de concerts entre morceaux d’AMG et improvisations.Première carte blanche donnée au contrebassiste Anthony Jouravsky.AMGQu’est ce qu’un groupe de jazz ? À quel moment, quatre musiciens qui ont chacun leur histoire personnelle, leur parcours d’auditeur, d’instrumentiste et d’improvisateur deviennent une entité qui transcende les individualités et créent ensemble un son ?Pour le pianiste Antoine Fleury, le contrebassiste Anthony Jouravsky, le batteur Mailo Rakotonanahary et le saxophoniste Keïta Janota, cette chimie se réalise un soir de mars 2022 sur la scène du Sunset, l’un des clubs mythiques de la rue des Lombards, à Paris. Deux mois plus tard, c’est entre les murs du non moins mythique studio Pigalle qu’AMG (c’est le nom que ces quatre-là se sont donnés) enregistrent pour la première fois ensemble ce qui deviendra leur premier album éponyme, réédité sous une forme remaniée et étendue, sous le titre AMG EXTENDED, en décembre 2024 et que la critique a vite porté aux nues.Dès lors, le quartet AMG écume la plupart des clubs de la capitale – le Duc des Lombards, le Baiser Salé, le 38Riv, La Gare, La Petite Halle… –, remporte tous les tremplins auxquels il participe et impose l’air de rien cet acronyme emprunté à une théorie musicale élaborée par le saxophoniste et flûtiste Yusef Lateef, dans le microcosme jazz.Précisément parce qu’AMG, en plus d’être une réunion de prodiges habités, est un groupe, un son, une énergie, un esprit, un feu. À la fois ancrée et moderne, tour à tour fiévreuse et apaisée, la musique d’AMG tord le cou à bien des clichés de l’époque : le jazz, tel qu’il est approché et pratiqué par ces vingtenaires qui citent aussi bien les géants du jazz moderne que leurs disciples du nouveau millénaire ou la jeune garde du rap français, est une musique du 21ème siècle. Et il n’a pas besoin d’être artificiellement crossover ou pensé comme une musique à écouter debout, pour être pertinent aux yeux du public de 2025 qui a depuis longtemps – lui – balayé d’un revers de main la question des genres musicaux et a compris la puissance et la portée universelle de la musique instrumentale.
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