‘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
Dans le registre de la musique de Django, voici un excellent enregistrement porté par une culture populaire qui continue de rayonner en Europe par sa qualité et le nombre élevé de musiciens de talent qui la portent. Ici, nous avons le très expressif Tcha Limberger, dont le violon semble traduire toute l’histoire et l’âme de l’Europe, en particulier dans des aigus d’une sensibilité extrême et par une sonorité très profonde. L’autre soliste de cette rencontre est Mozes Rosenberg, le frère de Stochelo Rosenberg, une de ces grandes familles tziganes (de Hollande) qui transmet la musique de Django avec une exceptionnelle virtuosité, une qualité totalement maîtrisée pour donner à la musique la plénitude expressive nécessaire. Mozes est donc non seulement très brillant mais aussi parfait de clarté dans ses chorus («Someday You’ll Be Sorry»), ses contre-chants («I Surrender Dear»), ses échanges («Topsy») avec Tcha Limberger. La rythmique assurée par le fondamental Sébastien Girardot et par Dave Kelbie (guitare rythmique), le producteur du disque, complète un ensemble de très bon niveau où la personnalité extravertie de Tcha Limberger apporte une chaleur particulière, et Mozes les éclats virtuoses de sa guitare («Flamingo», l’introduction). Notons que comme pour Les Trois mousquetaires, le Tcha Limberger Trio sont quatre avec Mozes Rosenberg…
Le répertoire est fait de beaux standards américains («Avalon», «Moonglow», etc.) ou français («Pour que ma vie demeure», «Clair de Lune»). Il y a ainsi tous les ingrédients d’un très bon disque avec le plaisir supplémentaire de retrouver Tcha Limberger dans le jazz où il a beaucoup d’âme (sur son violon et dans son chant, avec son coeur, naturel: «I Surrender Dear», «Someday You’ll Be Sorry», «What Is This Thing Called Love») et de découvrir Mozes Rosenberg en soliste de haut niveau.Les amateurs de la musique de Django trouveront aussi dans cette heure de musique tout ce qui fait le caractère exceptionnel de cette expression: l’énergie du live, la profondeur de la sincérité, l’originalité toujours renouvelée dans un langage familier et un ancrage dans tout ce qui fait la magie de cette musique, la combinaison du swing et des mânes ancestrales de la musique populaire européenne la plus élaborée, la plus essentielle, magnifiée par la synthèse de génie avec le jazz de Django Reinhardt, il y a bientôt un siècle.
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 est béni des dieux
Il y a d’abord un violoniste d’une technique sidérante, d’une sensibilité au swing qui l’inscrit dans le sillage d’un Stéphane Grappelli. Fils et petit-fils de musiciens manouches, le Belge Tcha Limberger est béni des dieux, touche également à la guitare et chante plus que correctement. Mais c’est bien sûr le violoniste, à la tête d’un trio constitué du guitariste Dave Kelbie et du contrebassiste Sébastien Girardot, qui retient l’attention. Une « machine » efficace au service du swing manouche, teinté d’une tradition du jazz classique. Un plaisir du jeu qu’un enregistrement live, assuré au festival de jazz de Foix, en 2015, restitue avec un invité de marque : le guitariste Mozes Rosenberg. Une session rythmique d’enfer sur laquelle des solistes prennent leurs envols et dialoguent avec cette sidérante technique qui sait s’oublier pour parvenir à une totale élégance du jeu. L’esprit du grand Django préservé par de dignes héritiers.
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

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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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