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Tuesday March 15, 2005
Rasselas Jazz Club @ 8pm
1534 Fillmore @ Geary
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Eager for musical experiences and exchanges, Mario Canonge puts his talent at the service of the most diversified styles and cultures, from the four corners of the world to his native West Indies. As a matter of fact, not only is he a key musical figure who has to be reckoned with, but also and above all an ambassador-at-large for the musical heritage of Martinique.
"There is a relationship between my place and all the places in the world, and I want to try and put that relationship into music.” he said It is the way to a lasting victory over that invisible predator, globalization, in order to do away with the idea of identity as a single root. Identity is always a root. But it is not a single root; it is a rhizomic root.
He is one of the best pianists and composers of our time. As the indisputable representative of "jazzy" West Indian music, he gets his inspiration from Zouk, Mazouka, beguine and calypso rhythms, but also from Afro-Cuban or Latin-Jazz rhythms. A peerless musician, his touch is smooth and intoxicating. But adjectives are not enough; you have to listen to him or, better yet, see him on the stage dancing on his piano.
The group, made up of a "hard core"-Mario Canonge, Michel Alibo and Antonio Sanchez and occasionally augmented by Roy Hargrove and Richard Bona, or Jean-Pierre Koquerel and Gino Sitson, offers a warm, natural and uniform soundscape. |
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