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  • Second Time, Improvisations Cycle

    RF05CD

    Artist: Claude Marc Bourget

    Label: RUBY FLOWER RECORDS

    At 50 years young he has returned to the euphonic highlights with an album of extraordinary maturity, brilliance and lyricism, crossing jazz and classical soundscapes, which in turn appear both impressionist and contemporary.

    Improviser Bourget has not lost touch with his talent but instead has grown and gained in reflection rather than embracing conformity, repetition, or freezing formulas sometimes present in the musical world. One must follow his long phrases, his always subtle rhythms, his moments of blues, and freedom in the themes and contrasts.

    Claude Marc Bourget’s playing is intense, especially in the silences, clearly influenced by Paul Bley, Keith Jarrett and Glen Gould. For Bourget, solo improvisation is an art in itself; his choice of art, a way to bring us to the end of a road in a subtle manner and with the assurance of a master.

    The high quality of this recording is remarkable. Claude Marc Bourget, indeed has chosen to celebrate his return in the magnificent concert hall of Domain Forget in Charlevoix (Canada), playing a Hamburg Steinway, sustaining each note with velvet hands. There are no effects of the studio here and no technical artifice. It’s the piano, the pianist and the natural echo of the hall Françoys Bernier, installed on the awesome St. Lawrence River … to discover.