Raphaël Imbert - Heavens: Amadeus & the Duke album download

Amadeus & The Duke. Label: Jazz Village ‎– JV 570011. Country: Germany, Austria, & Switzerland.

Album · 2013 · 19 Songs. Carine Bonnefoy, Raphaël Imbert, Thomas Savy, Simon Tailleu & Cédrick Bec).

With his band of virtuosos, Raphaël Imbert weaves together the common themes in the worlds of Ellington and Mozart. Making each echo to the other's sound, he conjoins them in a musical marriage which brilliantly merges their works. Inspired by both written and oral traditions, driven by improvisation and a swinging momentum, the saxophonist reveals the genius of these two great Masters.

Heavens: Amadeus & the Duke, a Raphael Imbert project is like Forest Gump’s momma’s box of chocolate- you never know what you’re gonna get, but it’s always pretty good. Call this a crossover album. It opens with wierd, electronic, squeaky bugs and bats nachtmusik, into which a solo sax riffs uncertain tones, and soon the band is playing 30’s swing with a funky flavour and the tone of sax is like a kazoo. Track 2 goes all Tom Waits whining, carnie, harmonies, and in Track 3 here comes the Allegretto con variazioni of Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet, K. 581: that goes goofy for a bit then.

In Heavens, the music lover is raised to a rainbow paradise where the hearts of jazz and classical music collide and beat together, and where music is as much a state of mind as a question of style. Raphaël Imbert - saxophones, bass clarinet, piano (2) Marion Rampal - vocals Thomas Weirich - guitars Simon Sieger - trombone, piano (1, 14, 18), organ (18) André Rossi - piano, organ (18) Pierre Fénichel - double bass Jean-Luc Difraya - drums, vocal Florent Héau - clarinet Quatuor Manfred Marie Béreau - violin Luigi Vecchioni - violin Emmanuel Haratyk - viola Christian Wolff - cello.

With his band of virtuosos, Raphaël Imbert weaves together the common themes in the worlds of Ellington and Mozart. Raphaël Imbert - saxophones, bass clarinet, piano (2); Marion Rampal - vocals; Thomas Weirich - guitars; Simon Sieger - trombone, piano (1, 14, 18), organ (18); André Rossi - piano, organ (18); Pierre Fénichel - double bass; Jean-Luc Difraya - drums, vocal; Florent Héau - clarinet; Quatuor Manfred; Marie Béreau - violin; Luigi Vecchioni - violin; Emmanuel Haratyk - viola; Christian Wolff - cello.