Duet

Bireli Lagrene, Sylvain Luc | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 22, 2000)
• Original Release Date: February 22, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Dreyfus
• ASIN: B0000488TQ
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #143,524 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Time After Time

2. Douce Ambiance

3. Estaté

4. Made in France

5. La Ballade Irlandaise

6. Isn't She Lovely

7. Road Song

8. Zurezat

9. Stompin' at the Savoy

10. Blackbird

11. Syracuse

12. Looking Up

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Virtuosity and Musicality of the highest order., February 28, 2000

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Richard Cohn (New York, New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Duet (Audio CD)

I heard Sylvain Luc in Paris recently and was astounded by his extraordinary instrumental mastery and his remarkable interpretations of jazz and pop classics that are completely accessible and entirely fresh. Birelli has been a guitar god since his prodigious youth and has come a long way since his early days of channeling Django--in fact his most recent outings on disc have included a Sinatra Tribute on which he sings ( to great effect) as well as an album devoted to standards. (and to understand how complete a player he is, check out his work with the late-great Jaco Pastorious for some of the wildest Jazz/Rock jamming you could ever hope for.) On this duet disc, the styles of these two masters are different enough to provide a rich and compatible contrast- and their technical wizardry never interferes with the melodic lines and simple harmonies of the tunes. Time after Time and Isn't She Lovely are perfect examples of how they retain the simple structure of a familiar song while adding layers of improvisational dynamics and melodic invention to achieve an exciting blend of stimulating sound. This album is already one of my all time favorite guitar duo sessions.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I love it !, March 23, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Duet (Audio CD)

Another amazing performance featuring Bireli Lagrene, in my opinion one of the most exciting jazz guitarist. As an amateur guitarist myself, all of Bireli's work is source of ideas and inspiration. This CD also gives the opportunity to know a guitarist named Sylvain Luc, famous in France for being the side man of all the biggest name on the French scene. His technique is also impressing, admirably completing Bireli's style. He however can't be qualified as "straight" jazz guitarist, but more as a multi-talent, versatile personality. The choice of the songs is interesting, combining jazz standards and adaptation of popular music. I found especially remarkable the adaptation of a French song by George Brassens called "les amoureux des bancs publics" which in the original version is as far to a jazz song as possible, and which becomes here a very sensitive jazz ballad.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Killer guitar, July 14, 2003

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Hippocrates G. Giatis "GH Be Real" (Burlingame, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Duet (Audio CD)

I can't go more that a few days without listening to a cut from this CD. Sylvain Luc brings his skills as a Jaco style bass player to the guitar; adding with his incredible musical taste and exquisite guitar techniques - his performance RANKS AS THE BEST accompaniment in a 2 guitar grouping (Guitarists must hear him comp!!!). AND this doesnt even speak to his terrific soloing. America needs to see and hear Sylvain Luc.
And for those who dont know Bireli Lagrene is arguably the best jazz guitarist in our world today.