And yes, accidentally discovered during the Dinant Jazz Nights Festival 2008, this training that brings together the cream of Belgian jazz, headed by trumpeter and flugelhorn player coool Greg Houben - son of saxophonist Steve Houben - and his partner Julie coloratura soprano Mossay, proposes an ambitious album, rich and varied repertoire and accommodating in taking the famous French songs (Fauré, Debussy ...) with Bossas of Chico Buarque and Tom Jobim, and finally original compositions, doing the splits between 3rd Stream Jazz, Latin and fusion (with fender rhodes Matthew Vandenabeele, which concludes the album of his superb composition "North Lille", sublimated by airline vocals of Julie Mossay). Greg Houben is somewhat comfortable with Chico Buarque directory (abandoning his trumpet, his voice is sometimes confusing resemblance to that of the carioca master) and for good reason: he studied music a year in Rio de Janeiro, and apparently transmitted the love of Brazilian music to his companion, whose diction is impeccable Portuguese - Classic excellence requires ...
A truly exceptional album, which deserves more than confidential exposure to which he was entitled until now ...
