Naïma Quartet - Zephyr (2021)

Alternately joyful and light, melancholy and soft or more electric and dark, this album is in the image of our contemporary life. It is like an autumn sky that would let in the light and suddenly darken. The Naïma Quartet is tossed between optimism and questioning, between ostensible gaiety and intimacy, but also between tradition and modernity. He does not choose sides. The group offers a varied music built around the assertive voice and bass lines of Naïma Girou. True guardian of the groove and the rhythm Thomas Doméné forms with Naïma the base on which can rest the flights of Jules Le Risbé on the piano and John Owens on the guitar. They play a simple Jazz, beautiful and open to the world which reflects their moods, their concerns and their hopes.