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Nicolas Masson

Renaissance

ECM
Release Date: March 21, 2025

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Nicolas Masson’s acquaintance with his fellow quartet travelers Colin Vallon, Patrice Moret and Lionel Friedli goes back roughly two decades – in this time the players have developed an intimate musical bond, expressed purely and beautifully on Renaissance, the group’s second recording for ECM after 2018’s Travelers. Comprised exclusively of originals by the Swiss saxophonist and one collective improvisation, the album’s spotlight shifts between contrasting moods and shapes, capturing the venturesome leader stretching his compositional muscle in evocative interplay with his colleagues.

“It’s a special album for me,” notes the Swiss saxophonist, “the tenth as a leader or co-leader. Renaissance is its title for several reasons – one of them being that it also feels like the beginning of something new in my artistic endeavor – a personal renaissance, if you will. And fortunately the music turned out exactly the way I had it in mind to begin with.”

  • 'Renaissance' stands as a compelling addition to Nicolas Masson's discography / JAZZ VIEWS
    Posted At: March 21, 2025
    JAZZ VIEWS - Nick Lea writes…This follow up to the Swiss saxophonist Masson’s 2018 ECM album Travelers has been a long time coming. In the intervening years the quartet, with a now stable personnel that have been making music together for nearly two decades, have been touring and honing their music still further as this exhilarating new release reveals. Once again Masson is responsible for composing all the...
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