Angelo Debarre - Caprice (1999)

Angelo Debarre recorded “Caprice”, his first album as a band leader. It is a recording that allows us to appreciate his talent as a composer, and to hear Gipsy jazz as we never heard it before. This album brings together some of the best that Europe has to offer for this music: Florin Niculescu on violin, Philippe “Doudou” Cuillerier and Max Robin on guitar, Bojan Zulfikarpasic on piano, Bernard Malandain on doublebass and Xavier Desandre-Navarre on percussion. The album was a popular critical success on both sides of the Atlantic, and proved that gipsy jazz is here to stay ; reviewers pointed out the important contribution that it has made to gipsy jazz tradition.