Rouge is an album by French jazz musician Louis Sclavis, recorded in 1991 and released in 1992 on the ECM label. It was reissued in 2006 and 2019.[1]
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| Studio album by Louis Sclavis Quintet | ||||
| Released | March 1992 | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 63:24 | |||
| Label | ECM | |||
| Producer | Manfred Eicher | |||
| Louis Sclavis chronology | ||||
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Reception edit
In a review for Jazzwise, Robert Shore wrote: "I don't know what the Frenchman's inspiration for the title of this recording was – Rouge (Red) – but there's a fair bit of intergalactic shimmering going on in clarinetist/saxophonist Sclavis's ECM debut from 1991. And, of course, ECM is very good at capturing this sort of soundscape... It's a heady brew, pitched somewhere between avant-garde jazz and chamber music."[2] According to The Penguin Guide to Jazz, "Sclavis's ECM debut is a challenging and surprisingly abstract set that rarely allows itself to settle into a jazz groove. Rouge establishes Sclavis as an enterprising and thought-provoking composer. If it does so at the expense of rhythmic energy (a strategy consistent with his ambivalence about jazz percussion), it doesn't short-change in other departments."[3]
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| Source | Rating |
| The Penguin Guide to Jazz |   [3] |
Track listing edit
- "One" (Louis Sclavis, Dominique Pifarély) - 2:35
- "Nacht" (Louis Sclavis) - 8:04
- "Kali la nuit" (François Raulin) - 5:20
- "Reflet" (Louis Sclavis) - 3:05
- "Reeves" (François Raulin) - 7:03
- "Les bouteilles" (Louis Sclavis) - 7:52
- "Moment donné" (Dominique Pifarély) - 4:16
- "Face Nord" (Louis Sclavis) - 10:33
- "Rouge" (Louis Sclavis) - 5:15 / "Pourquoi une valse" (Louis Sclavis, François Raulin) - 1:24
- "Yes love" (Louis Sclavis) - 5:57
Personnel edit
- Louis Sclavis - Clarinets, Soprano Saxophone
- Dominique Pifarély - Violin
- Bruno Chevillon - Bass
- François Raulin - Piano, Synthesizer
- Christian Ville - Drums
References edit
- ^ Allmusic Entry Archived 2021-06-03 at the Wayback Machine accessed 4 May 2022
- ^ Shore, R. Jazzwise Archived 2021-06-03 at the Wayback Machine accessed June 3, 2021
- ^ a b Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2006). The Penguin Guide to Jazz. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (8th ed.). London: Penguin. p. 1165. ISBN 0141023279.