Julie Sassoon Quartet - Voyages (2021)

Voyages - Julie Sassoon is traveling with her musical ideas, and the quartet was often on concert tours before the lockdown, so both the music and the quartet have developed further. It is a grown ensemble within the framework that she has set.

It was only logical that Julie Sassoon was aiming for a new album. Now it is before us, a rhythmic interaction in 'Missed Calls', runs on the piano with interesting sound and then, in the last piece, 'Melody', a hymn as the finale. There is a special melancholy inherent in the music. All solos fit into the spirit of quartet music with great sensitivity.

The important thing, as an example, I often and gladly underlined: the band rehearses, plays a lot of concerts and is on tour. So it is better than others, and so the spirit and the sound of the ensemble develop into its own further instrument: the quartet. Like a conductor who sees a particularly good symphony orchestra as an instrument, as a 'body of sound', and we as the audience hear and experience it. As one. That used to be in jazz, now less so, now Julie Sassoon is treading this old path with a new band. This path is by no means trodden. Ulli Blobel, December 2021