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Sylvain Rifflet « Troubadour » at Sunset-Sunside
Courtesy of Paris Jazz Club | Posted on October 3, 2020
Where
Sunset-Sunside
75001, 60 Rue Des Lombards
Paris
Map
01 40 26 46 60
When
Thu, November 19, 2020
8:00 pm
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Musicians
Sylvain Rifflet
saxophone, tenorAbout
In the Oc language, Trobador designates the "finder", at the same time creator, composer and performer of poetry and music. Sylvain Rifflet is a worthy descendant of these twelfth-century troubadours, whose last quartet portrays him: from project to project, he finds new ways to combine and make the word jazz resonate. By taking an interest in monodic medieval music, accompanied at the time by a drone, he adopted a shruti-box, an Indian instrument. Alolone on stage, he confronts the marvelous hushed and airy sound of his saxophone with this fascinating drone, around the first musical poems of love and some jazz standards....