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muzycy:
Darius Jones: alto saxophone, compositions
Matt Mitchell: piano, Rhodes
Sean Conly: bass
Ches Smith: drum set, percussion
Emillie Lesbros: voice, piano on 6
Pascal Niggenkemper: bass on 6

Editor's info:
Le bébé de Brigitte (Lost in Translation) is alto saxophonist-composer Darius Jones’ most recent album, and the 5th installment in his expansive Man’ish Boy epic. The highly acclaimed series began in 2009 with Man’ish Boy (A Raw & Beautiful Thing) – yes, coming soon to BC! – and shall eventually comprise nine albums. This release arrives soundly at the mid-way point with great potency, tenderness, fluency and unrelenting passion.

As ever with Jones’ work, the compositional palette ranges widely here. From the new blues swagger of “Universal Translator” to the equally universal sense of great loss evoked in “I Can’t Keep From Weeping” (as aching a ballad as Jones has yet written/recorded), from the infectiously swinging & (finally) unhinged cabaret dialogue that is “Chanteuse in Blue” to perhaps the deepest essence of the album (and platforms of intent) which are “Two Worlds, One Soul” & “Beneath The Skin”, a pair of extended works which evolve with the utmost in careful consideration to timing and gesture by all involved. French singer-lyricist Emilie Lesbros’ own composition, “Quand Vient la Nuit” (here arranged by Darius Jones) closes and lyrically encapsulates the album: espousing no fear, in life, in art.

CD digipak & digital booklet feature original artwork by exquisitely gifted painter Justin Hopkins.

"With this release, Darius Jones cements his position as a brilliant, model jazz musician in the new century. ... After absorbing his five-album cycle of music that is simultaneously extremely varied and remarkably focused, we have to acknowledge that Jones is one of our most important young composers and thinkers about this music." –PopMatters

"Accessible avant-garde jazz, lyrical compositions, and a seamless integration of a sympathetic unit and a vocalist .......
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