Maxime Plisson Quartet - Crazy (2025) Hi-Res

The Maxime Plisson Quartet & Stéphane Belmondo Conquer Madness.

What is madness? Are we mad when we're in love, when we walk through the doors of a psychiatric hospital, when we're hypersensitive, different, or when we lose our zest for life?

"I've often reflected on these questions… And jazz seems to resonate with them as well. All the songs on this album offer a different perspective. They came to me at different times in my life.

They hum stories of suffering and hope, take us on journeys of delirium, speak to us of love too, make us dance on the edge of the abyss, or whisper in our ear that some are wandering beyond the bounds." With this second album, the Quartet invokes the greats, like Nina Simone, Michel Legrand, Nick Drake, and Leonard Bernstein. The musicians. They embrace this new landscape with complicity and sincerity.

Stéphane Belmondo, on bugle and trumpet, joins them for this unique adventure.

For over 10 years, Maxime has also been one of the resident singers with the Moulin Rouge orchestra in Paris.