‘Live’ in Foix

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‘Live’ in Foix

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2018 – LJCD18
#8 in iTunes Top 200 Tracks Germany Jazz Chart

A recorded performance for Association Art’riege at Jazz à Foix July 23rd, 2015
TCHA LIMBERGER – VIOLIN/VOCALS
MOZES ROSENBERG – GUITAR
DAVE KELBIE – GUITAR RHYTHMIQUE
SÉBASTIEN GIRARDOT – DOUBLE BASS

‘Live’ in Foix

TRACKLIST & AUDIO

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LIVE IN FOIX PRESS

Limberger’s violin seems to translate the whole history and soul of Europe
JAZZ HOT FR
an album to die for
WORLD MUSIC REPORT CANADA
The spirit of the great Django preserved by worthy heirs.
L’ALSACE FR

 
 

LIVE IN FOIX REVIEWS

LOS ANGELES JAZZ SCENE 02.07.2020
‘Live’ in Foix – Tcha Limberger Trio
Tcha Limberger, who is blind, started out as a guitarist, added the clarinet, and did not take up the violin until he was already 17. Within a few years he was a masterful violinist and on his way to becoming one of the leaders in the Gypsy Swing movement. His trio with rhythm guitarist Dave Kelbie (who founded and runs the important Lejazzetal label) and bassist Sebastien Girardot has had strong success.
For this 2015 concert, the Tcha Limberger Trio is joined by the Dutch gypsy guitarist Mozes Rosenberg who is the younger brother of guitarist Stochelo Rosenberg, the influential leader of the Rosenberg Trio. The quartet performs swing standards and a couple of Django Reinhardt songs, swinging hard and playing creatively within the idiom.
On such numbers as “My Blue Heaven,” “Avalon,” “Topsy,” and “Some Of These Days,” the quartet is often blazing. While touched by the inspiration of Stephane Grappelli, Limberger does not overly emulate him and has his own sound; the same can be said for Rosenberg’s musical relationship with Django. They are close enough to the tradition so their playing will greatly interest fans of Reinhardt and Grappelli yet they never copy the greats and instead have forged their own path within swinging jazz.
The results are quite enjoyable and available along with a couple of dozen other excellent swinging jazz releases from the Lejazzetal label (www.lejazzetal.com).
SCOTT YANOW

JAZZ HOT 12.12.2019
‘Live’ in Foix – Tcha Limberger Trio
In the realm of Django’s music, here is an excellent recording carried by a popular culture that continues to shine in Europe due to its quality and the high number of talented musicians who uphold it. Here, we have the very expressive Tcha Limberger, whose violin seems to convey the entire history and soul of Europe, particularly in the extremely sensitive high notes and with a very deep sound. The other soloist in this encounter is Mozes Rosenberg, the brother of Stochelo Rosenberg, one of those great gypsy families (from the Netherlands) who transmit Django’s music with exceptional virtuosity, a quality completely mastered to give the music the necessary expressive fullness. Mozes is thus not only very brilliant but also perfectly clear in his solos (“Someday You’ll Be Sorry”), his counterpoints (“I Surrender Dear”), and his exchanges (“Topsy”) with Tcha Limberger. The rhythm section, ensured by the fundamental Sébastien Girardot and by Dave Kelbie (rhythm guitar), the producer of the record, completes a very high-level ensemble where Tcha Limberger’s extroverted personality brings a particular warmth, and Mozes adds the virtuosic brilliance of his guitar (“Flamingo,” the introduction). It should be noted that like the Three Musketeers, the Tcha Limberger Trio is actually four with Mozes Rosenberg…
The repertoire consists of beautiful American standards (“Avalon,” “Moonglow,” etc.) or French ones (“Pour que ma vie demeure,” “Clair de Lune”). Thus, all the ingredients for a very good record are present, with the added pleasure of rediscovering Tcha Limberger in jazz, where he brings a lot of soul (on his violin and in his singing, with his heart, naturally: “I Surrender Dear,” “Someday You’ll Be Sorry,” “What Is This Thing Called Love”) and discovering Mozes Rosenberg as a high-level soloist. Django music enthusiasts will also find in this hour of music everything that makes this expression exceptional: the energy of live performance, the depth of sincerity, the ever-renewed originality in a familiar language, and an anchoring in everything that makes the magic of this music—the combination of swing and the ancestral spirits of the most elaborate, essential European popular music, magnified by the genius synthesis with Django Reinhardt’s jazz nearly a century ago.
YVES SPORTIS

WORLD MUSIC REPORT 20.01.2018
‘Live’ in Foix – Tcha Limberger Trio
Although this album finds Mr. Limberger primarily on violin which he plays with enormous skill, supplying the requisite emotional density and his playing is fluid and beautifully controlled and exemplary throughout, he does sing on two tracks, scatting (“I Surrender Dear”) and singing expressivo wordlessly executing a succession of breathtaking passaggio phrases on “Someday You’ll Be Sorry”, while executing diabolical double, triple and quadruple stops on “Flamingo”. The album showcases the water-colours of Django Reinhardt’s “Clair De Lune” and a memorable version of Cole Porter’s “What Is This Thing Called Love”.
Mozes Rosenberg’s appearance on this recording adds enormous heft to the music and the guitarist plays with great virtuosity and character. His articulation is pure and in his extraordinary use of dynamics the absent characters in the music’s narratives live and breathe as if they suddenly appeared in front of you. Among the absolute high points on the disc is the bridge on “Avalon” where Mr. Limberger and the guitarist combine in a series of Paganini-like inversions.
The core of this group also includes Mr. Limberger’s life-long musical partners – Dave Kelbie, a rhythm guitarist of such astonishing power and skill, and so flawless a sense of time that he obviates, as always, the need of a drummer. The other musical cohort is Sébastien Giradot, a supremely lyrical contrabassist who also adds light and shade to the music as a painter daubs a canvas with colour. Together, the four musicians succeed in making this an album to die for.
Track list – 1: My Blue Heaven; 2: Avalon; 3: Pour Que Ma Vie Demeure; 4: I Surrender Dear; 5: Moonglow; 6: Topsy; 7: Flamingo; 8: Someday You’ll Be Sorry; 9: Some of These Days; 10: Clair De Lune; 11: What Is This Thing Called Love
Personnel – Tcha Limberger: violin and vocals; Mozes Rosenberg: guitar; Dave Kelbie: rhythm guitar; Sébastien Giradot: contrabass
Released – 2017
Label – lejazzetal Records
Runtime – 1:01:22
RAUL DE GAMA

L’ALSACE FRANCE 20.02.2018
Tcha Limberger is blessed by the gods
First, there’s a violinist with astonishing technique and a sensitivity to swing that places him in the lineage of Stéphane Grappelli. The Belgian Tcha Limberger, son and grandson of Manouche musicians, is blessed by the gods, also playing guitar and singing more than competently. But it is, of course, the violinist, leading a trio consisting of guitarist Dave Kelbie and double bassist Sébastien Girardot, who commands attention. An effective “machine” in the service of Gypsy swing, tinged with a tradition of classical jazz. The joy of playing is captured in a live recording from the Foix jazz festival in 2015, featuring a special guest: guitarist Mozes Rosenberg. An exceptional rhythmic session on which the soloists take flight and converse with such astonishing technique that it knows how to fade away to achieve a total elegance of play. The spirit of the great Django preserved by worthy heirs.
SERGE HARTMANN

SONGLINES 01.06.2018
A hot night of Gypsy Jazz in the French Pyrenees
Tcha Limberger is a super-skilled and versatile violinist, who plays in a number of different genres. Sometimes it’s Transylvanian folk, sometimes it’s Budapest restaurant repertoire, sometimes it’s Django Reinhardt-style swing – all styles closely associated with Gypsy musicians. It’s Gypsy swing that’s the focus here; the tradition Limberger was born into in Belgium. For this live concert in the French Pyrenean town of Foix, he is joined by Dutch Gypsy guitarist Mozes Rosenberg, also born into a Sinti family steeped in this music. This concert was apparently the first time Limberger and Rosenberg had played together, but you would never guess – everything is confident and coordinated and Limberger gives him plenty of room to shine. Rosenberg really is a superb guitarist, with super-fast virtuoso melodies and feathery ornamentations, demonstrating real panache on ‘Some of These Days’. Limberger adds occasional vocals and his scat singing in ‘I Surrender Dear’ is less of a highlight. There are only two Django Reinhardt numbers, one of which is the delicate and little-known ‘Pour Que Ma Vie Demeure’. Tracks by Cole Porter, Louis Armstrong and more are given the same Gypsy swing treatment.
SIMON BROUGHTON

INFO ON THE BAND

Additional information

Weight 70 g
Dimensions 16 × 16 × 1.5 cm
Technical

A recorded performance for Association Art’riege at Jazz à Foix
http://www.jazzfoix.com
Ecole Lucien Goron, Foix, France
Original sound recording by Rosemary
July 23rd, 2015

Filmed and recorded by Rosemary
Produced and Directed by Lionel Escama
Engineered by Luc Fourneau

Mastered by Minerva Pappi at Waudio, Helsinki
waudio.fi

2017 Lejazzetal Records, London
Produced by Lejazzetal Records
Package design & artwork by Dave Kelbie
Assisted by Kathryn at Prestset
prestset.co.uk
Manufactured in the EU by The Digital Audio Co Ltd
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Photos
PACKAGE
front cover – film still
B&W inside spread Jacques Delrieu

BOOKLET
By Jacques Delrieu:
page 2/3 B&W spread of Tcha Limberger
page 7 Sébastien Girardot
page 8/9 inside spread audience
page 12/13 Mozes Rosenberg & Tcha Limberger
page 14 Dave Kelbie

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page 4/5 Mozes Rosenberg & Sébastien Girardot – film still

Sleeve notes by Francis Couvreux
Translation by Benjamin Goldenstein

4 reviews for ‘Live’ in Foix

  1. John Atkins (verified owner)

    From the opening round of applause to the final notes, this recording oozes class. Class in recording. Perfect balance and as good a live sound as I have heard, Class in playing with the fiddle and voice of LImberger and guitar of Rosenberg right at the top of their game, and that is some peak. Outstanding.

  2. sophie_canet (verified owner)

    So much love and groove in this album! Brillant!

  3. Anna Berglund (verified owner)

    The music is no less than amazing and the audio is also really impressive.
    Playful and brilliant play. I recommend it!

  4. Richard (verified owner)

    Amazing album. Fantastic band and great live performance. Great to see live also. Authentic and truthful to the subject matter without imitating anything. Fresh approach, virtuosic playing. Killer

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