Nguyên Lê Streams quartet

He has played with Ornette Coleman, Quincy Jones and Henri Texier, among others. Nguyên Lê is a self-taught musician with a meandering career. He has flirted with rock, explored world music and, in particular, Vietnam, the country of his parents. With his new album Streams, Nguyên Lê returns to the roots of jazz in a quartet. A highly varied and successful album.

As well as becoming an internationally acclaimed and sought-after jazz musician, Nguyên Lê has experimented with reinterpreting and arranging traditional music from many countries. By exploring each ethnic specificity as a treasure, his identity as a jazz musician has become increasingly unique. Collaborating with traditional musicians has transformed his music and forged his spirit. Drawing on this gift, Nguyên Lê now responds by writing his own compositions born out of this inner melting pot. And, in so doing, he is returning to one of the foundations of jazz, born in the voyage of cultures, from the ritual music of Africa to the American blues, from French harmonic impressionism to the harmony of bebop. At 'STREAMS' we love Clause Debussy & Béla Bartók, masters of integrating elements of traditional music into their own writing, with the result so unique, homogeneous and distinctive as we know it. A new world of inspiration opened up between tradition and modernity, East and West, North and South. Let's hear it today with 'Streams"