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Michel Reis "Japan" Quartet at Sunset-Sunside
Courtesy of Paris Jazz Club | Posted on August 22, 2018
Where
Sunset-Sunside
75001, 60 Rue Des Lombards
Paris
Map
01 40 26 46 60
When
Wed, November 7, 2018
9:30 pm
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Musicians
Michel Reis
pianoAbout
Hailed as a 'tremendous pianist' by Downbeat Magazine, Michel Reis brings together in his Japan Quartet long time collaborators Akihiro Nishigushi and Takashi Sugawa whom he has been working with for the past 15 years. They met while studying together in Boston, MA. In 2015, together with rising-star drummer Shun Ishiwaka, they formed the Michel Reis Japan Quartet. This band has since touring numerous times, playing at some of Japan’s most famous clubs and festivals. The Japan Quartet released its first album in 2018, and it features all original material by Michel Reis. The music bears Reis’ typical traits as a composer, with a focus on clear melodic content. However the Quartet also ventures in more avant-garde territory and explores free form improvisation. Four tracks on their new album are freely improvised, yet still focusing on recurring themes and ideas, invented and developed in the moment. Michel Reis and the members of his quartet try to broaden the musical horizon of the band, by taking advantage of every sonic and rhythmical esthetic which they spontaneously encounter while interacting on stage. Michel Reis’ Japan Quartet combines well crafted compositions with a more loose improvised approach in order to create an exciting and fresh musical soundscape....