Ti Jaz - Ti Jazz en concert: Musiques Bretonne Aujourd'hui

Olivier Mell - bombards;
Richard Dilly - electric bass;
Olivier Le Gallo - drums;
Camille Ollivier - alto & soprano saxophone, bombard;
Bruno Brochet - tenor saxophone;
Didier Queron - tenor & baritone saxes;
Eric Richard - accordion;
With:
Vincent Bucher - harmonica.
Recorded in Paris on February 19,20 & 21, 1993.

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01. Les filles de Lannion [05:28]
02. Suite de gavottes (rotavator 1) [04:40]
03. Concept [01:56]
04. Rotavator 2, le retour [06:53]
05. An daou vreur [03:48]
06. Terre battue [08:49]
07. Bamenjou [05:25]
08. Suites plin (ton simple) [03:35]
09. bal [02:10]
10. ton double [03:15]
11. Loudia [07:21]
12. Kost'er hoed [05:32]
13. Tricot [03:08]

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"C’est le groupe mythique du jazz celtique de l’Ile de France ... 1982, date de naissance du groupe et pendant 20 ans, ils se sont produits dans de nombreux pays. Quelle notoriété ! Pendant 20 ans, ils ont fait le bonheur des passionnés de musiques celtiques adaptées à notre époque, et des danseurs dans les bals folk car c’est aussi très dansant ...
Répertoire musical : un mélange de swing, jazz, funk aux airs traditionnels ; des mélodies du Trégor ou de Spézet et le rythm’n blues ... . quelle originalité et qualité musicales !" (http://danseseniledefolk.free.fr/article.php3?id_article=116)

"While there are bands in abundance resurrecting the folk traditions of Brittany, there are only a handful that are expandiing those traditions. Ti jaz is one of them. Starting with a band of bass, drums and accordion, they have added the instruments of jazz: saxophones, and the instrument of ancient France: the bombarde, a raspy, woodwind with a bagpipe-like sound. So, too, have they melded these musical elements, the melodies and ideas of early French music with the improvisation of free jazz and the gut of rock. They pay hommage to the "ideal jazz" bands of 1940s and players like Yves Menez, who used horns, fiddle, accordion and banjo to create a new French folk music. In that same spirit, Ti Jaz sprawl across the musical landscape, one minute a dark dirge on bombarde, the next firing off a slap bass and drum riff that would settle in nicely at The Knitting Factory. The eight instrumental works on Rêves Sauvages are sometimes chaotic, often lyrical and always challenging. They achieve power without electricity, a power intrinsic in the instruments and the source material." (http://www.rootsworld.com/rw/feature/france.html)

samples:

http://www.musictrad.org/bottin/sons/tijaz_a1.ram
http://www.gimini-music.com/cdsearch/tijaz2.htm

Olivier Mell:
http://www.myspace.com/oliviermell