This morning we’re playing jazz! And to be more precise, we offer you a journey around the saxophone, this instrument whose vibration is unique, sometimes mystical and often the source of a certain enchantment. If you’re not familiar, we found the perfect guide for you: Muriel Grossman. She is a specialist in the domain, and she’s about to release a highly anticipated new album (which is also being listened to collectively for the first time this evening).

Accompanied by her quartet, Muriel explores the world of spiritual jazz and offers a sixteenth album, the result of slow maturation, resolutely full of a joy that she enjoys sharing wherever she has the pleasure to play.

So plug in your best sound system and listen to how this selection resonates, as profound as it is unexpected, where playful melodies and textures intertwine, each more unique than the last.

Guest’s selection

Dexter Gordon - Ca’Purange

Muriel Grossman: “Ca’Purage” … incredible song and performance by Dexter and the crew, digging deep into soul jazz. It’s always nice to hear Dexter, he always plays great and some really groovy stuff by legendary drummer Louis Haynes, who is still alive by the way, call him for your show too.

Cannonball Adderley - 74 Miles Away

Muriel Grossman: Great composition by Joe Zawinul and a classic performance by this great band. Spiritual jazz crossed with some soulful playing, as usual with the Cannonball groups, this selection is also recorded live … 1967, a transitional year, lots of great records, lot’s of great music!

Wayne Shorter - Wind

Muriel Grossman: “Odyssey of Iska” is a great record by Wayne Shorter, one of my favorites, it was just after he left the Miles band and before he and Zawinul formed Weather Report … it’s a great avant-garde record, unknown, underrated…

Curator’s selection

Muriel Grossman - Unison Unveiled

Anto: ” I must admit that my jazz culture is very limited. I let my ears wander here and there, randomly on a few musical wanderings, and I delight in a few nuggets that are accessible to me or that manage to catch my attention. This is how I came across a composition by Muriel Grossman one day. And you see, what’s magical about music is that sometimes things happen that can’t be explained, there are pieces that hit the spot, as if they were going to stick somewhere deep within us, in the place that was naturally intended for them. Digging a little deeper, I really appreciated the energy and values ​​that Muriel seeks to convey with her music. It is therefore quite natural that I invited her for this episode, and it is a real pleasure to be able to offer you a preview of “Unison Unveild”, a very bright and particularly groovy track which will appear on the new album. Enjoy! “

Cochemea -Curandera

Anto: ” This track is a step into unknown territory. Visibly sacred land, we feel irremediably good. The sax twirls from one place to another, never where we might expect it… We follow it and realize its healing power. As if he were healing something, something different in each of us. Healer. This is what “Curandera” means in Spanish. “

Nubya Garcia - A Shade Of Jade

Anto: ” With this song, Nubya Garcia masterfully shows us how the saxophone is capable of stepping aside to better let his friends shine. She is there, she welcomes everyone and stands back to watch with delight as her mate thrill the audience. Then she comes in turn to swing an incomparable vibe, a poetry delicately placed where it is needed. The end phase where the sax gradually leaves the piece is a delight that we never tire of. “

Manu Dibango - Frozen Soul

Anto: ” Finally we finish with an even different rhythm, which smells like the sun (which contrasts radically with the title of the track). Here Uncle Manu vibrates his instrument with grace and elegance, delivering a perfect score. It’s the happiness of a ray of sunshine in the middle of winter, we take it as it is, we welcome it with pleasure and it rewards us a hundredfold. ”

And here it is for this morning selection. Thanks a lot to Camille Celestin for this stunning illustration and thanks again to Muriel: it was so smooth and very nice to cook this episode with her.