Alban Darche／Trumpet Kingdom (2008, BMC)

 

 

 

 

Alban Darche - Trumpet Kingdom

2008, BMC (Budapest Music Center)

 

Alban Darche - tenor sax
Eric Vloeimans - trumpet (solo 2,8)
Laurent Blondiau - trumpet (solo 4,7)
Geoffroy Tamisier - trumpet(solo 1,3)
Sylvain Rifflet - tenor sax, bass clarinet
Gábor Gadó - guitar
Sébastien Boisseau - double bass
Emmanuel Birault - drums

 

 

Trumpet Kingdom 3

 

 

The live performance of Trumpet Kingdom was one of the great novelties of the MOL Budapest Jazz Festival 2006 and of the Mediawave 2007 in Györ. Alban Darche, the French saxophonist whose successful forays into contemporary music have already earned him a lot of kudos, has already attempted in one of his orchestras to elicit a trumpet sound that is, at the same time, hotter and denser than that of the conventional big band trumpet sections. For that very reason, for his new project he has again approached such trumpeters whose sound transcends the barriers of brass. ~ Péter Pallai.