http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXLsGJvcLso
Here is an interesting video of a french saxophonist and clarinetist (Sylvain Rifflet).
He plays mainly his compositions with different band (one of his recent band is called "Alphabet").
When you listen to interviews of him, he describes his music as "Jazz", but it seems quite different of what we usually associate with Jazz.
First the band composition is different (usually we can see a double bass, no violin ...), and the structure is different from usual (first they play a written part, then the guitarist improvises, then another written part, some improvisation, again some written part..).
While the written part sounds more like contemporary music than jazz, the improvisation part plays with jazz idioms and shows how well Sylvain Rifflet knows the history of jazz and knows how to play with harmony.
What I think is interesting here, is the "french" sound in this tune. Especially the guitar improvisation sound a bit like other french improvisers ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwwm6A7m7mU Marc Ducret for example). I think it's kind of cool to see how french musician have developped their own interpretation of this american music, and how we can here that "french sound" in a lot of musician.
Julien
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