Reviews
JazzTimes “échos la nuit” review
June 10, 2019 With a sound that gives off an after-hours feel and a command of his instrument that is both majestic and gritty, cultivated over a ballooning catalog, alto saxophonist Michaël Attias has long been a major player on the cutting-edge jazz scene. 2017’s superb Nerve Dance, credited to the Michaël Attias Quartet, manifested a…
Citizen Jazz “échos la nuit” review
June 2, 2019 Saxophone et piano, deux instruments et un solo. Michael Attias publie aujourd’hui un travail qu’il mène depuis 2006 dans lequel il joue à la fois des deux instruments. De manière concomitante d’ailleurs puisqu’il ne s’agit pas d’utiliser les possibilités d’un studio et du réenregistrement mais plutôt d’envisager le piano comme matrice harmonique et mélodique aux…
London Jazz News “échos la nuit” review
May 16, 2019 This feels like an album which should inspire poetry, rather than a review. Michaël Attias’ first solo album is an incredibly beautiful, patient, delicately unfurling recording, an intimate duo for alto saxophone and piano played by one person simultaneously. Attias explores a variety of approaches to the combination of sax and piano.…
Interviews
‘Polyphonic Awareness’: Michaël Attias Speaks
June 7, 2019 When he was a child, saxophonist Michaël Attias had what one could categorize as an auditory hallucination while in bed with a fever. “Suddenly, I began hearing several different kinds of music happening all at once,” Attias remembers. “It was an amazing feeling, as if all boundaries had dissolved and the walls…
Interview in Citizen Jazz
June 2, 2019 Difficile de trouver personnage plus central que Michael Attias dans le monde du jazz et des musiques improvisées. Il travaille depuis plus de 15 ans avec Tony Malaby, Paul Motian ou Jean-Brice Godet. Il a étudié avec Braxton et joué avec Motian. Il se partage entre les États-Unis et l’Europe. Si l’expression…
A Neon Jazz Interview with Jazz Saxophonist Michaël Attias
February 23, 2017
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