Take It Like It Is (Digipack)
  • Josiah Woodson
    Josiah Woodson
  • Alex Terrier
    Alex Terrier
  • Albert Bover
    Albert Bover
  • Fabricio Nicolas
    Fabricio Nicolas
  • Olivier Robin
    Olivier Robin

Olivier Robin

Take It Like It Is (Digipack)

Swing Alley

Personnel:
Olivier Robin (d), Josiah Woodson (tp), Alex Terrier (as, ss), Albert Bover (p), Fabricio Nicolas (b)

Reference: SA 048

Bar code: 8427328450485

Olivier Robin is an endearing and authentic sideman-leader. Performer, composer, improviser, accomplished musician, he gives us his travel stories with munificence. Olivier deploys with finesse and mastery a subtle and stimulating sound palette, inherent to his drumming and sublimated by the presence of his accomplices of the moment. If the foundation of the Jazz quintet tradition is set here as a fully inspiring framework, it is immediately the urgency of the “here and now” which calls out: a series of miniatures which lets us grasp, in a homogeneous and invigorating, the vitality and poetry of the subject thanks to the protagonists who animate it. Alongside Olivier, Albert Bover (piano), Fabricio Nicolas (double bass), in a resolutely involved rhythm section, come to magnify a writing that is as committed as it is delicate; constant attention paid to the melodic designs the lead of Josiah Woodson (tp, flugelhorn) and the second voices of Alex Terrier (alto sax, soprano sax) conducive to individual expressiveness in the continuity of the improvisation spaces: a musical setting that Olivier Robin shapes with talent.

Take it Like It is: brilliant performers serving sensitive and luminous writing. Keep on swinging gentlemen!

—Carine Bonnefoy (pianiste, compositrice)

Tracklist


01. Take It Like It Is (Olivier Robin) 4:44
02. Fragment (Olivier Robin) 6:11
03. Back to the 60’s (Olivier Robin) 7:49
04. Express Lane (Olivier Robin) 4:37
05. White Shark (Olivier Robin) 6:01
06. Snowed (Olivier Robin) 7:05
07. Let’s Take a Break (Olivier Robin) 6:00
08. Althéa (Olivier Robin) 4:33
09. Quiet Pace (Olivier Robin) 5:19

Album details

Personnel:
Olivier Robin, drums; Josiah Woodson, trumpet; Alex Terrier, alto & soprano sax; Albert Bover, piano; Fabricio Nicolas, bass.
Recorded at Studio Midilive, Villetaneuse, France, June 27 & 28, 2023

Sound engineer: Léo Aubry
Mixed and mastered by Julien Bassères at Studio de Meudon (September 19 & 20, 2023)
Photos by Monsieur G, Alain Saillant, Stéphane Macaux & Olivier Robin
Sleeve design: Oliver Degabriele

Produced by Olivier Robin
Executive Producer: Jordi Pujol

This sound recording © 2024 by Fresh Sound Records
Blue Moon Producciones Discograficas, S.L.
Price:

10,95 €  (tax incl.)

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