Pourquoi is a composition by Philip Catherine lending its name to the 2nd studio album with his guitar confrere Paul Morello & bassplayer Sven Faller.

Pourquoi is a composition by Philip Catherine lending its name to the second studio encounter with his guitar confrere Paul Morello and bassplayer Sven Faller. A 'Pourquoi' which - yes, you read this right - is written without a question mark. A little word play by the jazz guitar master Philip Catherine and that those who know him will certainly recognize. A living, young-at-heart jazz legend turning eighty in 2022. A musician who is appreciated as a national hero in Belgium, the small country with the great jazz scene. These three top artists perform with a virtually natural flow, stylistically assured through all genres, at times vivaciously swinging, at others contemplative and condensed. After their first album 'Manoir de mes rêves' and In over fifty concerts, Catherine, Morello and Faller have let their trio art and repertoire mature. They have developed an interplay of chamber-music-like quality, avoiding cheap 'guitar battles', concentrated on constantly listening and reacting and completed by Faller's double bass with a sure pulse and canon-like counter melodies.While the debut album centered around the trio's admiration for Django Reinhardt, Antonio Carlos Jobim, and jazzy interpretations of French chansons from the 50s and 60s, 'Pourquoi' puts original compositions into focus. With the exception of 'First Waltz' by Belgian film composer Frédéric Devreese (1929-2020) and the Mediterranean-like 'Frontera' by Nicola Andrioli, the repertoire of 'Pourquoi' is written by Catherine and Morello.The music of this trio masters the art of evoking places, persons and moods so intensely, that they all of a sudden become familiar, even when you have never tasted the wine at 'Chateau Plagne', nor having met 'Louisella'.The evocative vividness and atmospheric intensity of this music is largely due to Philip Catherine, the great melodist and 'chansonnier' of the jazz guitar, who can, as Paulo Morello states 'make the guitar sing and sound like nobody else'.

Additional Details

Label: Yellowbird Records

Genre: Jazz

Run Time: 50 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 07/01/22

UPC: 767522979923