7º Festival de Jazz de Vigo

Concertos. Romano, Sclavis, Texier

Root Africaine

Saxophonist and clarinetist Louis Sclavis (Lyon, France, 1953), double bassist Henri Texier (Paris, 1945) and drummer Aldo Romano (Belluno, Italy, 1941) bumped into the African continent twenty years ago, and that experience became an integral par of their music.

Together, they first discovered Central Africa in the company of photographer Guy le Querrec, a tireless traveller with close links with the world of jazz.

The result of that and of subsequent visits to Africa was a sort of jazz journey across the continent from the standpoint of three well-established European jazzmen, who have so far published three albums with the pieces of each one of them: Carnet de Routes (Label Bleu 1995), Suite Africaine (Label Bleu, 1999) and African Flash Back (Label Bleu, 2005).

Photographer Guy le Querrec (Brittany, France, 1941) became the fourth member of this project by integrating his work not just in the above-mentioned albums, with their extraordinary sleeves, but also in the staging of their performances.

Root Africaine is the title of the concert with which Imaxina Sons Vigo’s Sixth International Jazz Festival, puts on the stage three of the leading figures of European jazz while travelling across the African colourful imagery of Guy le Querrec.

• Aldo Romano: Drums
• Louis Sclavis: Saxophone and clarinets
• Henri Texier: Double bass
• Guy le Querrec: Photographs