tribute to Nelson Freire and legendary musicians

Louis Winsberg is a virtuoso guitarist, who was part of the group Sixun, and released an album, Real Time (Gemini), a flamenco-jazz project. For his part, Renaud Garcia-Fons has created an absolutely magnificent record of experimental, carnal music, Le souffle des strings.

Women in the music industry are honored in a book, Musiciennes de legend (First), by Marina Chiche. “She tells us how these women have sometimes sacrificed their life as a woman for their work as a musician. Some have hidden their pregnancy, others have signed their composition under the names of men”, explains the journalist of France Télévisions Michel Mompontet. Brazilian pianist Nelson Freire passed away ten days ago. “He was perhaps the most incredible pianist of this late twentieth century and early twenty-first century. He was loved as much as admired”, specifies Michel Mompontet.