LIFT: 1st Floor
French singer Emily Allison and her countryman Thomas Mayade met in 2009 and immediately decided to form a duo to try out every imaginable possibility vocals and bugle offer.
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1st Floor jazz (Liftmusic.me)
Their main inspirations were Kenny Wheeler & Norma Winstone, but also Diederik Wissels & David Linx. Because she wanted to learn from the latter, Allison came to Brussels, followed by Mayade. Linx’s lessons clearly bore fruit. Her singing is irrefutably immersed in his style. No crooner clichés or artificial scatting, but a very particular vocal cachet between parlando and extremely versatile voice flexion, to which Mayade’s bugle adds warm accents. It is pianist Dorian Dumont, however, who pulls the whole thing in the direction of pure jazz. The two duets with Linx are textbook examples of how close a student can stick to her teacher. It’s no coincidence that the group won the Brussels Jazz Marathon competition in 2011. More proof that our capital is an international hub for young jazz talent.
15/2, 22.00, €10, Sounds
1st Floor jazz (Liftmusic.me)
Their main inspirations were Kenny Wheeler & Norma Winstone, but also Diederik Wissels & David Linx. Because she wanted to learn from the latter, Allison came to Brussels, followed by Mayade. Linx’s lessons clearly bore fruit. Her singing is irrefutably immersed in his style. No crooner clichés or artificial scatting, but a very particular vocal cachet between parlando and extremely versatile voice flexion, to which Mayade’s bugle adds warm accents. It is pianist Dorian Dumont, however, who pulls the whole thing in the direction of pure jazz. The two duets with Linx are textbook examples of how close a student can stick to her teacher. It’s no coincidence that the group won the Brussels Jazz Marathon competition in 2011. More proof that our capital is an international hub for young jazz talent.
15/2, 22.00, €10, Sounds
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