Quatuor Debussy – String Quartet
Vincent Peirani – Accordion
Franck Tortiller – Vibraphone
Jean-Philippe Collard-Neven – Piano
Jacky Terrasson – Piano
A century after his death on 25 March 1918, many harmonia mundi artists are eager to pay tribute to Claude Debussy, the magician of melody and timbre, the great ‘colourist’ and father of modern music. We also wished to honour the composer of Pelléas as one of those creative artists who, long before Louis Armstrong and Bill Evans, had a determining influence on certain harmonic colours of jazz. Let us therefore salute the initiative of the appropriately named Quatuor Debussy, which, with the friendly collaboration of leading jazz personalities, has revisited the Préludes in its own way. And at the end of the work, what title would Debussy have inscribed? ‘… note bleue’?
1″C” Influences
Vincent Peirani 11’06
2Les Sixtièrces alternées
Transcription Marc Vieillefon 2’44
3Midi, do majeur
Franck Tortiller 2’54
4Des pas sur la neige
Transcription Marc Vieillefon 3’56
5À l’ombre de la cathédrale…
Jean-Philippe Collard-Neven 13’19
6Minstrels
Transcription Marc Vieillefon & Alain Brunier 2’31
7Danza del vino
Transcription Marc Vieillefon 10’05
8Bruyères
Transcription Alain Brunier 3’05
9Bussie’s blues
Lionel Belmondo & Jacky Terrasson 13’57
10La Fille aux cheveux de lin
Transcription Quatuor Debussy 2’44