Thomas Enhco & Stephane Kerecki – A Modern Songboo at Bal Blomet

It is the story of a friendship or rather of a successful cutting between two fine flowers of French jazz. What brings them together: from the piano to the double bass, an airy touch - and this search for balance between the virtuosity of a technique and the hyper-sensitivity of the game, without forgetting a malicious pleasure in hybridizing contemporary jazz, decompartmentalize with love, drawing on both classical heritage and pop culture. A repertoire is sketched out: from gospel to folk, from Paris to Ireland, from Lebanon to Cuba, from Aretha Franklin to Nick Drake or Sting and even London Grammar, via Fauré and Schumann, he brings together this book of songs that we adore without knowing it, these intimate hits that share a “universal canvas” according to Stéphane, “thanks to this offering a vast horizon of improvisation”....

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It is the story of a friendship or rather of a successful cutting between two fine flowers of French jazz. What brings them together: from the piano to the double bass, an airy touch - and this search for balance between the virtuosity of a technique and the hyper-sensitivity of the game, without forgetting a malicious pleasure in hybridizing contemporary jazz, decompartmentalize with love, drawing on both classical heritage and pop culture. A repertoire is sketched out: from gospel to folk, from Paris to Ireland, from Lebanon to Cuba, from Aretha Franklin to Nick Drake or Sting and even London Grammar, via Fauré and Schumann, he brings together this book of songs that we adore without knowing it, these intimate hits that share a “universal canvas” according to Stéphane, “thanks to this offering a vast horizon of improvisation”.

C’est l’histoire d’une amitié ou plutôt d’une bouture réussie entre deux fines fleurs du jazz français. Ce qui les rassemble : du piano à la contrebasse, un toucher aérien – et cette recherche d’équilibre entre la virtuosité d’une technique et l’hyper-sensitivité du jeu, sans oublier un malin plaisir à hybrider le jazz contemporain, à le décloisonner avec amour, puisant aussi bien dans l’héritage classique que dans la pop culture. Un répertoire s’esquisse : du gospel à la Folk, de Paris à l’Irlande, du Liban à Cuba, d’Aretha Franklin à Nick Drake ou Sting et même London Grammar, en passant par Fauré et Schumann, il réunit ce livre de chansons qu’on adore sans le savoir, ces tubes intimes qui partagent un « canevas universel » selon Stéphane, « offrant grâce à cela un vaste horizon d’improvisation ».

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