Amaury Faye Nola Quartet feat. Herlin Riley • LIVING LEGEND!
Amaury Faye (p) ; Herlin Riley (dr) ; Julian Lee (ts) ; Edouard Pennes (b)
Over the past decade, Amaury Faye has established himself as one of the leading pianists on the European scene. A graduate of the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he received the award for Best Pianist of the Year in 2015, he has taken part in a myriad of projects and collected numerous accolades, both as the leader of his trio and as a sideman.
He recently decided to head back across the Atlantic and record where jazz was born: New Orleans.
As he is not one to do things by halves, and because simply being in Louisiana is not enough, he invited for this recording a true living legend of drums and tambourine, an absolute master of this music: Herlin Riley. He has been one of the key architects of the sound of both the small and large ensembles of Wynton Marsalis, and for many years he was the drummer of Ahmad Jamal. Having him in our little club is almost unbelievable, and it is a unique opportunity to witness this towering figure at very close range.
Completing the quartet are Julian Lee — another regular member of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and a major figure on the New York jazz scene — and bassist Édouard Pennes, a specialist and leading figure of the Paris swing scene.
The album Rust, released last autumn, was met with a flood of praise in the press, and this is a rare opportunity to discover an ensemble bringing together the very best: exceptional musicians at the height of their artistic maturity, led by one of the greatest living masters of the drums.