Tour'n'sol Prod.
One of the most distinctive saxophonists of the French jazz scene.
Samy Thiébault - tenor saxophone, alto flute, arranging, compositions
Emilie Aridon-Kociolek - piano
Samy Thiébault - Tenor Saxophone
Daniel Nogueira - Tenor Sax and Flute
Ivan de Andrade - Alto Sax and Clarinet
Walmer Carvalho - Tenor, Soprano sax, Flute
Bira Jr. - Baritone Sax and Flute
Rubens Antunes - Trumpet and Flugelhorn
Diogo Duarte - Trumpet and Flugelhorn
Douglas Felício - Trombone
Abdnald Santiago - Bass Trombone
Marcelo Lemos - Guitar
Fabio Leandro - Piano and Keyboard
Rafael Ferrari - Bass
Matheus Prado - Percussion
Mauricio Caetano - Drums
About « In Waves »:
Nominated as one of Télérama’s 35 albums of the year.
Télérama
‘An album of utopia, the kind we need today’.
CHOC Jazz Mag October 2024
“Samy Thiébault achieves that fragile yet unflappable state of grace shared by the weightless surfer in the trough of the wave and the improviser who gives himself over completely. »
Indispensable Jazz News
“This initiatory journey is largely due to his quest for elevation. »
TSF Jazz
“A grandiose work.”
France Musique
“The new wave of the saxophone.”
La Gazette Bleue
“Samy Thiébault signs a musical masterpiece echoing his generous and sensitive approach to otherness.”
RFI
After a Caribbean trilogy, Samy Thiébault has released In Waves, which is as much a documentary journey as a mythological saga. It’s an odyssey peopled by real men and women, sea creatures and ancient gods to whom sailors once turned for protection. ‘Na pua ri ki te va ka’, the Polynesians used to sing before launching their pirogue into the water. ‘This is my boat, let the ocean be my boat’. Among these sailors, Cynthia Abraham, François Ladrezeau, Armelle Cippe and her choir are a link between the waves and the divine. They speak the language of the ocean and sing of the first sailors who populated the Pacific between 4000 and 1500 BC…
About “Awé »:
Jazz Magazine
“Saxophonist Samy Thiébault has never confined himself to a specific genre. Hence his desire to push back traditional musical and geographical boundaries, and to multiply his alliances to create an original climate. »
Télérama
“Everything seems harmonious in this repertoire, which manages to combine ambition and humility, sophistication and pleasure, orchestral thickness and clean solos.”
FIP
“A splendid work whose ambitious orchestrations were recorded between Miami and Paris.”
France : Eaubonne Jazz, Jazz de Mars, Jazz à Bayssan, Jazz Lisieux, Segré Jazz, Maisons Lafitte Jazz Festival, Salle Pleyel, Festival Django, Ferté Jazz, Jazz à Toulon, La Défense Jazz, Salle Pleyel, Marseille Jazz des 5 Continents, Nice Jazz Festival, Jazz y Krampouez, Les Gémeaux Scène Nationale, l'Etincelle Rouen, Duc des Lombards, Nancy Jazz Pulsation, Jazz Sur Son 31
Europe : Jazzaldia Festival
World : Smalls Club New York, Tours in Équateur, Laos, Sicily, Algeria, Russia, Romania
