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...

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Tracks

1. Before We Go 3:07
2. Le Travailleur De Nuit 3:29
3. Le Loup 4:43
4. Barley Rag 3:55
5. Queue De Pie 4:35
6. John Thomas 3:51
7. Oh My Ghost 5:13
8. Carlotta 3:40
9. Snark Blues 3:02
10. Monkey Town 3:32
11. Robert Jones 4:09
12. Panorama 3:08
13. Barley Rag - Live 5:16
14. Le Travailleur de Nuit - Live 5:21
15. Super 20 Digital bonus 2:13
16. Monte-Cristo Digital bonus 4:31
17. City Talks Digital bonus 3:58
18. Little Hofinger Digital bonus 3:08
19. Sleepy One Digital bonus 3:11

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Album credits

All compositions and arrangements by Mathieu Najean

Track credits
(13 & 14) Lyrics and vocals by Cait Jones.
(01—12) Recorded and mixed by Antoine Karacostas at Studio Aeronef, Paris. September 2019.
(13 & 14) Recorded live at Upside Down Festival 2019, recorded by Julien Wadin, mixed by Mathieu Najean, Ghent December 2019.
Mastered by Rudy Coclet at Jet Studio.
Photos by Charlotte Marchal.
Design by www.ekta.be
Produced by Mathieu Najean and Juke Records.
Juke Records SABAM JUK002
Thanks to Charlotte Marchal, Guillaume Deman, Julien Wadin.