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Jazz Live SYLVIE COURVOISIER & MARK FELDMAN : UN MARIAGE JaZzLive PHOTO : BRUCE MILPIED contraire, je n’ai jamais pu voir qui faisait le MARDI 6 MAI, SAMEDI 10 MAI, JEUDI 22 MAI / TOURS, LE MANS, ARLES mouvement vers l’autre en premier. Je les ai vus et entendus trois fois lors de leur SYLVIE COURVOISIER & MARK FELDMAN : dernière tournée en Europe, qui comportait pas mal de dates en France : au Petit Fau- UN MARIAGE PARFAIT cheux à Tours, à l’Europa Jazz Festival du Mans, et enfin à Jazz In Arles. À Tours, un très DEPUIS QU’ILS ONT ASSOCIÉ LEURS VIES ET LEURS MUSIQUES, LA PIANISTE ORIGINAIRE DE beau travail pour ajointer les répertoires, mais LAUSANNE ET LE VIOLONISTE NÉ A CHICAGO INVENTENT CHACUN DE LEURS CONCERTS aussi quelques pièces en duo qui indiquaient COMME UNE LUNE DE MIEL CONSTELLÉE D’IRRÉSISTIBLES SURPRISES. dans quel sens allait la musique de cette tour- née. Au Mans et en Arles, un même parcours dans les pièces de leur CD “Live At Théâtre ylvie Courvoisier demande que le piano soit d’un mouvement d’épaule, soit d’un respir Vidy – Lausanne” (Intakt), avec des ajouts soit placé au centre de la scène, le clavier un peu fort et clairement audible, soit des deux récents qui ne changent rien à l’esprit général Sperpendiculaire à la rampe. Le pupitre à la fois. Ainsi c’est lui qui est en première ligne de leur récital. Une question de désir, qui est de Mark Feldman sera disposé légèrement et au poste de commande, mais c’est elle qui à la fois désir de musique et musique du désir. devant elle et à sa droite, de sorte qu’elle met en place leur position de concert. Quand Et aussi dans cette très belle orientation cham- pourra voir son violoniste de mari d’un simple le morceau est fini, et que les applaudisse- briste actuelle, un ressourcement emprunté à mouvement du visage, et suivre à la seconde ments crépitent, elle se lève, sourit, et prend la musique classique et une réinterprétation près les indications de départ qu’il donnera, la main de Mark. À moins que ce ne soit le du jazz tout à fait personnelle. Des moments 16 JAZZMAGAZINE JAZZMAN / Numéro 663 / Juillet 2014 de suspens, où tout semble attaché à un fil Et si je demande à Sylvie Courvoisier la raison BYE BYE LITTLE JIMMY ténu, on passe à des instants d’engagements de cette parfaite entente musicale que je pres- furieux, profonds, zébrés ou percussifs, puis sens et ressens de plus en plus, elle répond UNE VOIX D’ANGE l’on se retrouve dans la légèreté presque simplement que cela vient du fait que Mark S’EST ÉTEINTE comique et primesautière de petits échanges comprend chaque jour davantage que c’est elle amusés. qui a raison. D’une très grande sagesse, il acquiesce avec le sourire ironique dont il ne Ce duo existe depuis longtemps – ne comptons se départit que quand il s’agit de travailler… Et pas les années. Au début, il fut très organique, pour cela on peut lui faire confiance : le che- essentiellement improvisé. Puis la rencontre min qui l’a amené à cette maîtrise de l’instru- PHOTO : CHRISTIAN ROSE avec John Zorn les a orientés vers une musique ment depuis Chicago et les orchestres Le chanteur “Little” Jimmy Scott est plus écrite, et c’est à cette époque que je les ai symphoniques en passant par Nashville et le mort le 12 juin dernier. Né le 17 juillet accueillis à Bordeaux. Depuis, cette orientation rôle de fiddle qu’il a tenu (parfois auprès de 1925 à Cleveland, il fut frappé par le syndrome de Kallman qui interrompit sa s’est affirmée, Sylvie prenant à son compte Johnny Cash) dans des dizaines de séances, puberté et sa mue vocale. C’est donc d’écrire des pièces de plus en plus virtuoses, fut long et escarpé. Et seule la patience obsti- avec une voix toute particulière qu’il où l’on entend même actuellement des échos née dont il est capable a permis de le parcourir. débuta sa carrière musicale dans d’un romantisme échevelé, Mark jouant de Ils sont bien beaux, nos deux amis, leur l’orchestre de Lionel Hampton et connu son premier succès avec la chanson plus en plus en violoniste affirmé de son musique leur ressemble, et ne demande qu’à Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool. Par la 1 magnifique Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume. Cas- embellir encore . PHILIPPE MÉZIAT suite, sa carrière connut différents cades, cadences, sons filés et flûtés, traits agres- 1. Dernier né de la série des enregistrements qu’ils déboires qui le ramenèrent à Cleveland. sifs, sont sa marque, mais aussi dans son publient chez Intakt, cette fois en quartette avec Scott Il y vécut de petits boulots jusqu’à sa Colley (b) et Billy Mintz (dm) : “Birdies For Lulu”. Une écriture des moments d’une grande mélanco- redécouverte en 1991 par Seymour Stein, séance qui s’affirme plus orientée « jazz » que jamais le producteur de Madonna, à l’occasion lie, comme dans certaines parties de ce bel des funérailles du chanteur de blues Doc Orpheus and Eurydice qu’ils ont joué en chaque Pomus qui avait indiqué son nom dans occasion. Tout comme l’énergique For Alice ses dernières volontés. Désormais adulé, de Sylvie Courvoisier, dédié à Alice Coltrane. notamment par David Lynch qui le fait chanter dans Twin Peaks et par Lou Globalement, leur musique ne laisse pas l’au- Reed, il remportera un National diteur dans le sombre, tellement elle affirme, Endowment Jazz Master Award en 2007. joue, martèle, construit, rebondit ! Juillet 2014 / Numéro 663 / JAZZMAGAZINE JAZZMAN 17.
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