Fifteen months after the publication of the first chapter of his trilogy of perfumes, the images and childhood memories that they bring back to us, the composer, trumpeter and band leader Jacques Kuba Séguin releases a second, more ambitious album on which he brings together his quartet (completed by Jean-Michel Pilc on piano, Rémi-Jean Leblanc on double bass and Kevin Warren on drums) in the middle of the Orchester national de jazz de Montréal . The dreaminess of the first album gives way to five long and nourishing compositions oriented towards “life in adulthood”, comments the musician, who speaks of an “exciting and exhilarating period, as much as marked by disappointment and realism “. Thus, the work reveals itself in its continuation more corpulent, embodied and close to language big band jazz classic: here and there bursts of swing emerge, from the first portion of The dance of chance and dangers in the opening, in the brass orchestrations punctuating 40 Is the New 30 between two more funky and stripped-down passages. There is definitely more excitement than disappointment in Perfume no 2 !
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