Brittany has everything to do with jazz, and the best proof of this is the case of Pierrick Pédron, a native of Saint Brieuc, an eclectic and adventurous composer and star of the alto sax. After twenty-five years of career, he knows a year 2021, for the least fruitful.
In March, the young man in his fifties released “Fifty-Fifty”, the first part of a diptych, recorded between New York and Paris, an album that is the sum of all his musical desires, already crowned by American critics. In October, the Breton saxophonist was elected Instrumental Artist of the Year at the Victoires du Jazz. Two months later, he finished the year 2021 in style: he was elected French Artist of the Year by Jazz magazine and Jazz News.
“Fifty-Fifty” was born during the confinement that Pierrick Pédron used to work on the sax. Not only to perfect the practice of the instrument, but also to compose, work on harmonies, melodies, without constraints. Pure jazz that he then organized, arranged, put in order. Bop, obviously, because that’s where he comes from, from this spirit of freedom that characterizes the style. For all that, Pierrick Pédron does not want to let himself be locked into a genre. He claims multiple influences, from the Egyptian diva Oum Kalthoum to the English rock of The Cure, passing by the popular balls and the majorettes, without fearing to lose his public. That he invites in all sincerity, always. It is his trademark.
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Pierrick Pédron : alto saxophone
Carl-Henri Morisset : piano
Thomas Bramerie : double bass
Elie Martin-Charrière : drums
