JAZZLAB ORCHESTRA 2025 (En)

JAZZLAB ORCHESTRA E

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Over the past two decades, the JAZZLAB ORCHESTRA has established itself as a veritable creative force. Today, this unique collective is back with a major project: an ambitious new album, where polyrhythmic, polytonal and impressionistic universes intersect, supported by sophisticated writing and improvisation, always at the heart of its identity.

With 8 albums and over 464 concerts worldwide, the Jazzlab Orchestra is about to open a new chapter. After a residency at Orford Musique, several landmark concerts at festivals and venues, and the recording of a new opus in May 2025 at Studio Piccolo, the group will be ready to unveil its next album in early 2026.

EFFENDI JAZZLAB has produced eight album projects, all of them critically acclaimed, both at home and abroad. In addition, forty special projects have been carried out with international artists such as François Théberge, Stéphane Belmondo, Ted Nash, Zhao Ke, Rufus Reid, Don Thompson, Donny McCaslin, Reg Schwager, Mark Feldman, Rafael Zaldivar, François Bourassa, Jocelyn Ménard, Toine Thys, Fulvio Albano and, more recently, Greg Lamy and Claudia Chan Tak.

All JAZZLAB ORCHESTRA projects, without exception, have been nominated for Best Jazz Album and/or Best Jazz Concert at the ADISQ, JUNO, Prix Opus, Choc JazzMan, Downbeat and other awards. The most recent project, Loguslabusmuzikus, was nominated at ADISQ in the Album of the Year 2022 category, was chosen Hit by Couleurs Jazz (France), and received 5, 4.5 and 4-star ratings in several European magazines.

A unique and daring program: this new opus, entitled Glissement du Temps (Slip of Time), takes us on a musical journey through nine previously unpublished pieces by members of the collective and three other composers François Bourassa, Gentiane MG and Pierre de Bethmann, offering works that fit elegantly into this sonic mosaic. Each track is like a fragment of time slipping away, a captured memory, a fragile moment in the living matter of orchestral jazz.

This project will mark the 20th anniversary of the JAZZLAB ORCHESTRA, and will be a landmark work in the group's history: a portrait of both the past and the future.

A vibrant tribute: This album is also an opportunity to pay tribute to our colleague Mario Allard, an essential member of the collective, who died suddenly at the beginning of 2025. His musical presence will resonate in every note of this recording.

Musicians on the album

Mario Allard (as, bs) - whose ultimate musical prowess was recorded during an extraordinary session, rendered here with emotion.

Annie Dominique (ss, as, ts, bc), Claire Devlin (ss, ts), Erik Hove (as, fl), Michael Johancsik (ts, fl), Jacques Kuba Séguin, Nicolas Riverin (tp), Thomas Morelli-Bernard (tb), Marie-Fatima Rudolf, François Bourassa (p), Alain Bédard (cb), Michel Lambert (drs).