Noé Codjia & Neil Saidi Quintet / Jam Session at JASS CLUB

Since meeting at Parisian jazz jams, Neil Saidi and Noé Codjia have continued to evolve together, always presenting new and original projects.Returning from their trip to New York, they founded the Zoot collective with a single goal in mind: to reconnect with traditional jazz with an uninhibited and confident freshness. The quintet they present here is a perfect example of this.Accompanied by the most swinging young rhythm section on the Paris jazz scene, their repertoire takes us back to the years of bop and hard bop. The two accomplices pay tribute to a form of jazz they cherish. Following in the footsteps of the Jazz Messengers, Horace Silver Quintet, and Sonny Clark, they in turn reel off their own original compositions....

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Since meeting at Parisian jazz jams, Neil Saidi and Noé Codjia have continued to evolve together, always presenting new and original projects.Returning from their trip to New York, they founded the Zoot collective with a single goal in mind: to reconnect with traditional jazz with an uninhibited and confident freshness. The quintet they present here is a perfect example of this.Accompanied by the most swinging young rhythm section on the Paris jazz scene, their repertoire takes us back to the years of bop and hard bop. The two accomplices pay tribute to a form of jazz they cherish. Following in the footsteps of the Jazz Messengers, Horace Silver Quintet, and Sonny Clark, they in turn reel off their own original compositions.

Depuis leur rencontre au détour des jam jazz parisiennes, Neil Saidi et Noé Codjia n’ont cessé d’évoluer ensemble présentant toujours des projets nouveaux et originaux.De retour de leur voyage à New York, ils fondent le Zoot collectif avec un seul objectif en tête. Renouer avec un jazz de tradition avec une fraîcheur décomplexée et assumée. Ce quintet qu’ils présentent en est l’exemple type.Accompagné par la jeune pousse rythmique des plus swingueuse de la scène jazz parisienne, le répertoire qu’ils proposent nous propulse dans les années du bop et du hard-bop. Les deux acolytes rendent hommage à une forme de jazz qu’ils chérissent. Dans le sillon des Jazz Messengers, Horace silver quintet, Sonny Clark, ils égrènent à leur tour leur propres compositions originales.

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