Jean Derome et les Dangereux Zhoms dans Settled In Shipping
Compositionally, the pieces featured some intriguing structures — the Berg-like stacked tone row of
Jean Derome et les Dangereux Zhoms dans Le Monde
Pour être international, le festival de jazz de Montréal n’en délaisse pas pour autant les musiciens canadiens présentés tout au long de la manifestation sous l’intitulé
Parmi eux, le saxophoniste, flûtiste et compositeur
Avec
Il y a dans la musique de
Jean Derome et les Dangereux Zhoms dans The Gazette
Last year the festival silently got rid of something that certain of us kept a close eye on
Luckily, the avant-garde still has a place at our jazz festival. This evening’s
Saxophonist and flutist
As their name implies, the band finds a kind of surrealist balance between light-hearted witticism and trenchant word play. Derome’s music is difficult to classify and is packed with references to styles as wide reaching as funk and baroque music. Often he layers simple ideas on top of each other to create a dense but intelligible sound. A folk melody on flute will occur simultaneously over a sustained counterpoint in a different key, while bass and drums lay down a repetitive groove. Each section of a song will shift into a new register, a new zone of sound separate from the last. The success of the band isn’t so much what they do as how much they do and how seamlessly they move between such different musical styles.
If they weren’t amazing improvisers, the composing might even seem a bit flighty. At times, I found myself wanting less contrast and more commitment. But the subtle logic of the improvising held it together.
Where the composing may dip its feet in, the improvising dives head first. Each musician plays with a kind of patient insistence that is rare and delightful.
26 juin 2010: Jean Derome et les Dangereux Zhoms en concert au FIJM
Jean Derome et les Dangereux Zhoms seront en concert au Festival international de jazz de Montréal à L’Astral, le
20 – 29 mai 2010: Six ensembles DAME au Festival des musiques de création de Jonquière
Soyez à l’affût des concerts de la prochaine édition du Festival des musiques de création (FMC) qui aura lieu du
12 mai 2010: Mercredimusics: Événement spécial
Le prochain Mercredimusics accueillera Jean Derome et les Dangereux Zhoms pour une répétition publique du groupe, le

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