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Multi-award winning third album from New Orleans clarinetist and his project Django a la Creole.

SUNDAY TIMES top 10 jazz albums of 2014
DAILY TELEGRAPH top 30 jazz albums of 2014
THE SCOTSMAN top 10 jazz albums of 2014
CTLIVE top 10 jazz albums of 2014
OFFBEAT MAGAZINE top 50 Louisiana Album Releases Of 2014
JAZZTIMES top 50 CDs of 2014
Annual Jazz Critics Poll 2014

Is there a more graceful band at work at the moment?
THE SUNDAY TIMES UK
[Evan] is, in my estimation, not only the greatest jazz clarinetist alive, but one of the greatest of all time
AHMET ERTEGUN, FOUNDING CHAIRMAN OF ATLANTIC RECORDS
A forthright sound and a hungry energy
NEW YORK TIMES
repertory music of the best kind
WALL ST JOURNAL
in the history of jazz, he will be amidst the greatest of all times
JAZZ CLASSIQUE FRANCE
He makes close-encounter music
NEW YORK TIMES

credits

released February 27, 2014

Evan Christopher – Clarinet

Dave Blenkhorn – Guitar

Dave Kelbie – Guitar

Sebastien Girardot – Double Bass

Recorded ‘live’ in the UK 24/26/27/28 October 2012
Engineered by Dylan Fowler of Stiwdio Felin Fach
Mixed by Dave Kelbie at Stiwdio Felin Fach 17/18/19 December 2012, 09/10/11 January 2013, 11/12 February 2013

Mastered at Stiwdio Felin Fach 13 February 2013
www.taithrecords.co.uk

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produced by Lejazzetal Records, London

package design & artwork by Dave Kelbie
assisted by Kathryn at Prestset
www.prestset.co.uk
Package production by Lejazzetal www.lejazzetal.com
Manufactured in the EU by The Digital Audio Co
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Django a la Creole New Orleans, Louisiana

Spiced up textures of the Gypsy jazz pioneered by Django Reinhardt with hallmarks of New Orleans Jazz including blues, rhythms of the monde Créole, and collective improvisation. Clarinetist, Evan Christopher is possibly the world’s finest clarinetist. Elegant and impassioned, his style is steeped in the tradition of early jazz masters such as Sidney Bechet, Jimmie Noone, and Barney Bigard. ... more

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