Lionel Belmondo, Stéphane Belmondo, Eric Legnini, Laurent Fickelson, Thomas Bramerie, Dré Pallemaerts – Deadjazz (Plays The Music of the Grateful Dead) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 59:56 minutes | 1,10 GB | Genre: Jazz
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Less a homage than an interpretation, less a rereading than a resurrection, Deadjazz gives new life to the music of the Grateful Dead, the legendary group of the psychedelic era. Drawing inspiration from a cult repertoire, played by musicians who have had an unwavering bond with the Belmondo brothers for decades, this collective project is an immersion in a crucial moment in the history of music: when jazz became electric to the rhythms of rock and rock freed itself from the constraints of the song format through improvisation.
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Eric Legnini – Waxx Up (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:00:46 minutes | 681 MB | Genre: Jazz, R&B, Soul, Funk
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New album from Belgian jazz pianist Eric Legnini. A collection of short, pop and soul-oriented tracks, moving between acoustic and electronic music, and between yesterday and today. Eric Legnini has been serving jazz for twenty-five years; under his own name or as a special guest, the theme master has nothing much to prove. This particular chapter is not necessarily over, only this time he has decided to honour the raw material which fuels his work, the black wax in which his music has always dug deep for inspiration, and which has gradually shaped his style.”Wax is my roots! Vinyl records, sampling, the seventies-all these are ingrained in my musical culture”, says this record junkie who never misses an occasion to dig through a crate of LPs.”This record contains all the kinds of music that nurtured me: from hip-hop to soul, from funk jazz to present-day r’n’b. I am not trying to hide the sources of my inspiration, I’m simply giving my own version of them.”
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Eric Legnini – Six Strings Under (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 47:54 minutes | 481 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Pianists and guitarists don’t always mix well,”” Eric Legnini says. There can even be a kind of competition in the air between these two instrument worlds, these two mini orchestras on their own, these two popular technical tools that everyone has tasted at one time or another. However, it is far from being his case, says the Belgian: on his side, relations are rather good – even if, he confesses in a loud laugh, that he is only a “”poor guitarist”” who can only play “”three poor Brazilian chords””. But it must be said that the native of Huy (near Liege) grew up with a father who was a fan of Django Reinhardt: “”there were always some that resonated in the house””, he recalls. And then, along the way, Eric Legnini met some of the best specimens of the genus. Whether with the pillar of the Plat Pays Philip Catherine or the legend Toots Thielemans, harmonica player of course, but also skillful six-stringed player. With Six Strings Under, the pianist accomplice of Joe Lovano, Claude Nougaro, Stefano Di Battista, Aka Moon, the Belmondo brothers or Ibrahim Maalouf certainly decides to make a kind of declaration of love for this instrument that has rocked him all his life. But not only that: in addition to a nod to the famous series Six Feet Under, of which he is a fan, this album marks a return to acoustic and instrumental formats, two areas that he had left for several years to focus on more electric and full of vocal guests: the trilogy The Vox – Sing Twice – Waxx Up with Hugh Coltman, Mamani Keïta, Yael Naïm or Krystle Warren.
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Eric Legnini – Ballads (2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 47:30 minutes | 233 MB | Genre: Jazz
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The ballad is the hardest thing to play. On a higher tempo, we can hide the small defects, imperfections. On the other hand, if we have no idea about a ballad, we are cooked. It does not lie, you are naked. The flow imposes precision, concision. This is Legnini’s handsome challenge to Steinway on his new album. Recorded a year before The Vox, this is a beautiful exercise in style and an impressive lesson in introspection at the age of forty. An elegant breathing in a career that since the mid-2000s is experiencing a revival. The opportunity also for the Belgian pianist to plunge into this bath of eternal youth that is the repertoire of the great masters.
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