Eve Risser Red Desert Orchestra "Eurythmia" (France) • Jazzkaar 2024
Eve Risser is an innovative composer and versatile artist who deeply understands the soul of pianos, having explored the limits of piano sounds and discovered highly original tonal nuances. In addition to her solo projects she has led several smaller and larger ensembles and performed with jazz luminaries such as Charlie Haden, Tim Murphy, Michael Formanek, Gary Thomas and Theo Bleckman. Risser’s newest ensemble, Red Desert Orchestra, is a groove-oriented jazz machine that received the Paul Acket Award at the North Sea Jazz Festival in 2023. Eve Risser has previously performed at Jazzkaar in 2015 in the duo Donkey Monkey with Japanese drummer Yoko Oshima. During her student days she also participated in the Viljandi Folk Music Festival as a flautist in a French early music ensemble.
We thank: The French Institute of Estonia
The concert is carried out in cooperation with the Europe Jazz Network (EJN), with the Green Pilot Tour tour model. The aim of the Green Pilot Tours is, among other things, to plan and implement more ecologically sustainable tours, to encourage more versatile and gender-balanced programming and to promote the international mobility of artists.
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Line-up:
Eve Risser – piano
Alexandra Grimal – alto saxophone
Sakina Abdou – tenor saxophone
Grégoire Tirtiaux – baritone saxophone, qarqabas
Nils Ostendorf – trumpet, analogue synthesizer
Matthias Müller – trombone
Tatiana Paris – electric guitar, vocals
Ophélia Hié – balafon, bara, vocals
Mélissa Hié – balafon, djembe, vocals
Fanny Lasfargues – bass
Oumarou Bambara – djembe, bara
Emmanuel Scarpa – drums, vocals
