Christian Scott Concert at The New Morning, Paris
06 Feb 2009 11:43 AM / Filed in: Music
In October 2006, I posted a blog entry about Christian Scott’s Rewind That album. Back then, I wrote:
No words come into mind to describe this masterpiece. Rewind That is the debut album from an amazing trumpeter with a great sense of Funk. Christian Scott has earned my admiration and my utter respect with this record which I keep listening to, over and over. As good as (and sometimes better than) records from Erik Truffaz, Roy Hargrove (through the RH Factor) and Christian McBride. I really would like to see more and more albums like this because it reunites three wonderful elements: Funk, Jazz and trumpet.
Then in 2007, Christian released Anthem, another masterpiece which caught me completely off guard. While Rewind That can be barely classified as Jazz since it incorporates a lot of Funk and Soul elements and, in this regard, can be compared to releases from Roy Hargrove’s The RH Factor sublime band, Anthem is more of a true Jazz. In a very laidback style, Christian expresses much anger and haunting images after his hometown has been devastated by Hurricane Katrina. All About Jazz has a nice review of the album that I recommend reading.
A few weeks ago, I was scouting around on the Internet looking for worthy concerts to attend in February/March. This is how I found out that Christian was to play at the New Morning, a mythical Jazz Music venue in Paris. So I went there on Tue Feb 24th with a couple of friends and I enjoyed my time there. I was expecting though a bit more punch from Christian Scott but he decided to leave quite a room for his acolytes. At one point, he said that he really likes playing with his band and listening to it during the sets. No doubt about that since he gave me the impression of attending the concert like I did and spending most the time listening to his buddies.
The line-up for the concert is different from the one that delivered the album. Kristopher Funn replaced Esperanza Spalding at the bass, the uncanny Jamire Williams took the drumming control tower, Milton Fletcher was at the piano. The only original band member was Matt Stevens, guitar.
While my photography skills are very average, I was able to take honorable pictures of the concert thanks to my friend betabug’s sound advice. The pictures were taken with a Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX150 with an ISO 400 to 800 sensitivity and no flash in program mode.
No words come into mind to describe this masterpiece. Rewind That is the debut album from an amazing trumpeter with a great sense of Funk. Christian Scott has earned my admiration and my utter respect with this record which I keep listening to, over and over. As good as (and sometimes better than) records from Erik Truffaz, Roy Hargrove (through the RH Factor) and Christian McBride. I really would like to see more and more albums like this because it reunites three wonderful elements: Funk, Jazz and trumpet.
Then in 2007, Christian released Anthem, another masterpiece which caught me completely off guard. While Rewind That can be barely classified as Jazz since it incorporates a lot of Funk and Soul elements and, in this regard, can be compared to releases from Roy Hargrove’s The RH Factor sublime band, Anthem is more of a true Jazz. In a very laidback style, Christian expresses much anger and haunting images after his hometown has been devastated by Hurricane Katrina. All About Jazz has a nice review of the album that I recommend reading.
A few weeks ago, I was scouting around on the Internet looking for worthy concerts to attend in February/March. This is how I found out that Christian was to play at the New Morning, a mythical Jazz Music venue in Paris. So I went there on Tue Feb 24th with a couple of friends and I enjoyed my time there. I was expecting though a bit more punch from Christian Scott but he decided to leave quite a room for his acolytes. At one point, he said that he really likes playing with his band and listening to it during the sets. No doubt about that since he gave me the impression of attending the concert like I did and spending most the time listening to his buddies.
The line-up for the concert is different from the one that delivered the album. Kristopher Funn replaced Esperanza Spalding at the bass, the uncanny Jamire Williams took the drumming control tower, Milton Fletcher was at the piano. The only original band member was Matt Stevens, guitar.
While my photography skills are very average, I was able to take honorable pictures of the concert thanks to my friend betabug’s sound advice. The pictures were taken with a Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX150 with an ISO 400 to 800 sensitivity and no flash in program mode.