Led by Antoine Lissoir on the alto sax and clarinet, “life is a joke”started during the hard times of the confinement 2021.
Having much time to write down his own compositions, he decided to gather fellow musicians from different backgrounds to share their own compositions and song writing.
With a great sens of freedom in the interpretation in between themselves, they offer a fresh and unexpected set, exploring various types and styles of improvised music.
From swing to choro via progressive and atmospheric music, they offer rich scales and knowledge of blending styles for an exclusive and very original set.
As serious as it may be, Life’s a joke ! Come listen !
En 2020 Mathieu Najean sort son premier album de compositions personnelles, « Panorama », sur le label Juke Records. Lʼalbum, inspiré des grands maîtres (Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Clark Terry, Quincy Jones...) est bien reçu par la critique avec des articles dans Le Monde, Télérama, Citizen Jazz, Culture jazz, l'Académie du Jazz, Tsf Jazz, France Musique, Fip, Couleur Jazz...
Pour ce second volet de compositions originales, cʼest en collaboration avec la chanteuse de New York Cait Jones que Mathieu Najean a décidé de travailler.
Une correspondance prolifique en Paris et New York durant les confinements de 2020-2021, donne naissance à un album entièrement chanté, toujours sous le signe du swing et du blues. Composé des mêmes musiciens que pour le premier album; Edouard Pennes, Bastien Brison, Noé Codjia, David Paycha, Edouard Wallyn et Romain Vuillemin, issus de collectifs parisien réputés (ZootCollectif, Paris Jazz Session...), le groupe joue et swing avec plaisir et ça se sent!
After two years of live music extinction, our four cats of the Morning call jazz band made it worth it by recording a new album.
Original compositions of their four voices and explosive horns arrangements, melted in a very diverse swing and blues instrumentals.
Their songs will carry you from joy and laughter to sorrow and tears with a great musical interpretation, perfectly fitted to each and one of their pieces.
Putting back the art of barbershop of American jazz standards on stage, the Morning call jazz band hits it again today with an exclusive and talented blend of an acoustic jazz quartette and harmonized vocals album: "A Morning walk"
Find it, get it, listen and enjoy! Easy
Reverent Juke, a band that only makes sense live, or almost, is happy to present its first live album. It is there that the group unfolds, that its energy is ignited, that the fire takes.
Captured at many European festivals, the songs have been selected to remember all these moments of sharing, laughter, shouting, madness, sweat, sweetness, complicity, love.
Are you ready to spend A Night With The Jukes ?
En février 2019, six jeunes musiciens bruxellois s’envolent à la Nouvelle-Orléans. Fascinés par le Jazz des années '20 de Duke Ellington, Jelly Roll Morton ou encore Sidney Bechet ils se retrouvent très vite à partager avec les musiciens locaux dans les rues du French Quarter et les clubs de jazz de Frenchmen street. Invités à jouer à plusieurs reprises dans un club de la légendaire Bourbon street ils proposent à Leonie Evans, musicienne et chanteuse londonienne hors du commun, de partager la scène. Après cette rencontre autour de la voix de Leonie Evans et des musiciens bruxellois, les BLUE MOCKINGBIRDS voient le jour et ne se quittent plus.
They are fantastic! Mathieu Najean (saxophones), Timothé le Maire (trombone), Guillaume Gillain (guitar), Andrew Bolton (double bass) and Laurent Vigneron (drums) are five young musicians with overflowing energy who willingly share their passion for swing inspired by composers and musicians such as Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Sidney Bechet, Count Basie ...
Talented instrumentalists, they also feast their voices when they sing - in chorus or solos - in the style of Barber Shop (Mills Brothers).
Fully charged with an explosive and accurate sense of rhythm and melodies, they will enchant you with their music!
Listening to this album like discovering a great vinyl record you never knew existed. Except it's from today. Original compositions. Familiar, but fresh. Old, but new.
The "Mat Najean Jazz Band" was born in January 2019 in Paris. Surrounded by excellent swing musicians from the Paris jazz scene, Mathieu Najean wants to play his compositions. Through his music, always rooted in swing and blues, he wants to explore the different styles of swing: a rag like Jelly Roll Morton, a fantasy like Duke Ellington, a blues like Count Basie...
Reverent Juke is a badass and very versatile Swing Band that can go from early and New Orleans jazz, to the essence with hard swinging 30's style, all the way up to the swinging and bluesin' fifties.
With an explosive rhythm section built on the swinging drums of Tom Lambrecht, the bouncing bass and singing of Andrew Bolton and the wild stride of Renaud Crols, Reverent Juke sets the swing on fire with its three blowers, Martin Bolton on clarinet, Olivier Faber on trumpet and Mathieu Najean on reeds, blowing their horns on the fiery flames till they drop.