Marcel Loeffler for his new album “Saint Germain”

An outstanding stylist

First of all a sound, an airy and limpid phrasing combining light swing, elegance and lyricism, with a keen sense of improvisation; he can dawdle around the melody with unfailing inspiration or punctuate his speech with a few virtuoso accelerations that are never gratuitous because Marcel has long since passed the stage of virtuosity. For him, music is above all emotional.

Marcel Loeffler is one of those gypsies with fingers so fine with nostalgia and luminous velocity that he sees the heart of each note.

“Saint-Germain” project

In this rather dark period of isolation and confinement, Marcel Loeffler did not stop creating, traveling in time and projecting himself elsewhere and towards others.

We know that Marcel is an outstanding stylist. First of all a sound, an airy and limpid phrasing, a constant subject in its punctuations and countermelodies and a keen sense of improvisation; he can dawdle around the melody with unfailing inspiration or punctuate his speech with a few virtuoso accelerations that are never gratuitous; for Marcel has long since passed the stage of virtuosity; what interests him is to play in a thoughtful, more elaborate way, to build something coherent, to play on the nuances, to hold the note; for him, music is above all emotional.

For this adventure, he leads us brilliantly and enthusiastically into a pure moment of jazz punctuated by the impeccable guitar of his son Cédric Loeffler, the virtuoso violin of Julien Pidancier who immediately recalls the great Stéphane Grapelli, and the solid double bass of Franck Bedez .

Here they are reunited for the best in this project.

We are both family and on familiar ground. He revisits the Parisian melodies of the 50s and 60s, the crazy nights of the Left Bank of Boris Vian and Juliette Gréco, the carefree France of Trenet and the laments of Brassens or Mouloudji. Melodies sometimes forgotten but which are so familiar to us once hummed…

This repertoire, Marcel practiced it in the past when he played in galas or dance evenings, festive and shared moments that we miss so much today. These beautiful melodies remained in his head, dormant, in silence and now he is resuscitating them for us by giving them a beautiful gypsy color which is unique to him and which brings the great Django Reinhard back to life.

Guitar, violin, double bass and of course the accordion. All these songs wouldn’t be without the accordion. In the heart of all Parisians and in the souls of gypsies.

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