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<strong>JANUARY</strong> <strong>2011</strong><br />
Eric Watson<br />
Memories of Paris<br />
Jazz<br />
Outnote Records<br />
Cat # OTN 4<br />
Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99)<br />
Number of Discs: 1<br />
Digipak; Box Lot 30<br />
12<br />
U.S. ORDERS ONLY<br />
After in Paris<br />
Time Cycle<br />
Jazz<br />
Outnote Records<br />
Cat # OTN 5<br />
Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99)<br />
Number of Discs: 1<br />
Digipak; Box Lot 30<br />
U.S. ORDERS ONLY<br />
JAZZ<br />
• “I like jazz that goes beyond jazz.” This quote, which sounds like a<br />
manifesto, tells all about Eric Watson.<br />
• Having graduated from the conservatory after a thoroughly classic<br />
training, the pianist never turned his back on his background—although he<br />
never hesitated to venture into the field of improvisation.<br />
• Born American, yet French by adoption, Watson values freedom above all.<br />
Refusing borderlines and classifications, he has the same admiration for<br />
Thelonious Monk as for Charles ives—who, in his eyes, represent “the<br />
yin and the yang of the iconoclastic American spirit.”<br />
• Memories of Paris focuses on the live music Watson champions. Perusing<br />
his memories of the metropolis where he first arrived in 1978 was an ideal<br />
occasion to give free expression to his lyricism and exuberance.<br />
• From Pigalle to the Palais Royal, Montmartre, and Clichy, Watson’s<br />
compositions bring us “his” vision of Paris: romantic, lively, rebellious,<br />
and hectic. His solitary exercises in front of the 88 keys of his piano<br />
encourage reverie and awareness.<br />
Eric Watson: piano<br />
Track Listing: Clearings • Rue des Martyrs • Smoking Dog and the Sinner<br />
Cat • New York Moxie • Rue de Beaujolais • Rue des Trois Frères • Drop of<br />
Gold • Cité des Fleurs • Clairières<br />
Key Markets: New York, Chicago, San Francisco<br />
• The group After in Paris can be quite single-minded. On their<br />
eponymous debut in 2004, published under Jean-Jacques Pussiau’s label<br />
night Bird, the trio dedicated a track to David Lynch.<br />
• On Time Cycle, the three accomplices adopt a totally subjective vision.<br />
With friends Paolo Fresu and Dave Liebman, they project their hypnotic,<br />
mysterious, and fantastical universe. Spoken extracts from films (Shadows<br />
by John Cassavetes, The Maltese Falcon by John Huston, Citizen Kane<br />
by Orson Welles) and from radio broadcasts (War of the Worlds, CBS<br />
Radio Mystery Theater) match the notes perfectly.<br />
• “Short Cuts,” one of the 13 original compositions here, could have been<br />
chosen as the title for the album. Indeed, the reference to director Robert<br />
Altman, and to author Raymond Carver, seems to impose itself for this<br />
musical puzzle. Each of the titles fits into this picture.<br />
Claire Michael: vocals, saxophones, flute, programming<br />
Jean-Michel Vallet: acoustic piano, Rhodes, keyboards, programming<br />
Patrick Chartol: bass, double bass, wave drum, keyboards, programming<br />
Paolo Fresu: trumpet<br />
Dave Liebman: soprano & tenor saxophones<br />
Track Listing: Time Cycle • Short Cuts • Emotions Are So Strange •<br />
It’s Halloween • Mind, Body and Spirit • The Clock • Up Town • What is a<br />
Lie? What is the Truth? • Typical • Inexplicable • Missing Piece • Infinity<br />
of Life • Osmosis<br />
Key Markets: New York, Chicago, San Francisco
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