Après avoir nommé l'album TITRES du trio Jean-Jacques Birgé-Helene Duret- Alexandre Saada "The Best Experimental Music on Bandcamp, October 2024", Bandcamp nomme l'album ALBUM de Jean-Jacques Birgé-Catherine Delaunay-Roberto Negro parmi "The Best Jazz on Bandcamp, January 2025".
"In mid-October, French musicians Jean-Jacques Birgé, Alexandre Saada, and Hélène Duret met at a studio with an audience present and improvised, asking attendees to propose themes based on book titles. The results were posted to Bandcamp the next day as Titres (French for “titles”), with seven tracks of respectful but active musical conversation. Birgé’s keyboard and electronics supply a wealth of textures, including an underwater-sounding dance beat near the beginning of “París no se acaba nunca,” while Saada and Duret add busy note clusters that lean toward jazz but aren’t constrained by genre. Saada’s piano playing is particularly expressive, finding sharp moments inside halting rhythms, while Duret’s bass clarinet keeps the trio grounded even when it sounds like it wants to fly away. Other instruments—guitar, reed trumpet, music boxes—pass in and out of the mix, but things never get overcrowded."
(Marc Masters)
"This trio session from keyboardist Jean-Jacques Birgé, clarinetist Catherine Delaunay, and pianist-keyboardist Roberto Negro is not anything one would call normal, but this is a normal quality for a recording Roberto Negro contributes to."
(Dave Summer)