George Kontrafouris & Laurent Maur

"Laurent Maur loves jazz stricto sensu, with all the variations it contains to explore. In this album recorded in Athens with the George Kontrafouris trio, he and his session colleagues highlight a jazz that avant-garde artists of all stripes will describe as outdated. We don't care, a little, a lot, because we like well-made music, music that breathes, music that speaks to the ears without necessarily making them bleed. And then the harmonica is rare enough that we take pleasure in listening to it, especially when it is in the hands of a virtuoso who does not use it to impress the gallery, but to make music that is listens and travels. With an excellent Greek trio, previously unknown to our services, Laurent Maur shares the original compositions and they all sound as we appreciate them; they are almost standards, both to the ear and in form, with just the right amount of current so as not to repeat old times. It’s damn well done, it’s happy and airy, it’s fine and worked. In short, it would be stupid not to listen to him; you have everything to gain, that is to say a good time of jazz musical pleasure." Yves Dorison Culture Jazz