Michel Zenino – Zewoaï

"With ZEwOAÏ, Michel Zenino returns to the sextet formula. In 1988, his sextet was the first group to win the Jazz Orchestra Competition of La Défense unanimously by the jury." Portrait by Arnaud Merlin

"Double bassist Michel Zenino is a unifier. A brewer of music, sounds, images and adventures. Not a simple instrumentalist, skilled, experienced in the science of accompaniment for a soloist, but a real animator, a true orchestrator of personalities. A quality (…) that he uses intelligently within his own formations, which have won several awards at major orchestra competitions. (...) Whether it is personal or borrowed material, the story, the scenario that he submits to himself - or that is proposed to him - are transfigured to become the mastered place of a sound organization, a musical and poetic dramaturgy. A lively, tonic, invigorating aesthetic, nourished by the best sources of the history of jazz, a strong and fulfilled sensitivity, an art of variations of climates and colors... Arnaud Merlin, journalist (the world of Jazzman music, ...), producer for France Musique and Member of the "Académie du Jazz" & "Académie Charles-Cros"
Michel will present a mixture of old and new compositions arranged for this new group.