In this stunning debut album French guitarist Clément Régert has united some of the best of Brit-jazz, blended in French underground elements, all with his own brand of Parisian chic. Featuring Liane Carroll, Dennis Rollins, Quentin Collins and French rappeuse B’Loon, this album is jam packed full of exciting new music from the cream of the crop. Wild Card is a Nu-Jazz outfit, a cross-Channel alliance, linking two great musical cities Paris and London.Wild Card’s first release Mixity features:• Liane Carroll, multi award-winning soul jazz diva by day and front-woman for leading drum and bass outfit London Electricity by night.• Dennis Rollins, BBC jazz award-winning, funky, upfront, trombonist currently playing with Maceo Parker.• Quentin Collins, brash, explosive, fiery post-bop trumpeter.The powerhouse of the group, bassist ‘level’ Neville Malcolm and drummer Cheryl Alleyne are stalwarts of the UK jazz scene. Between the two of them they have played with most musicians on the UK scene including, Roy Ayers, Tomorrow’s Warriors, Courtney Pine, Incognito and have both played with US 3. They are complemented by Jazz Jamaica percussionist Philip Harper and the album’s co-writer/co-arranger Alexis Corker on piano, Rhodes and Hammond.Mixity of cities, mixity of genders, mixity of musical flavours, this album is the creation of a new ‘entente cordiale’. Clement Regert’s Wild Card is a melting-pot of musical ideas, fusing urban rhythms and grooves with latin and jazz attitude. The music is dynamic and exhuberant, appealing to jazz fans and more mainstream music-lovers alike.
CD Wild Card - Mixity
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