Street Beat Suite Lorraine Desmarais

• 1Orange brûlé05:56
• 2Valse Saint-Germain05:10
• 3Street Beat05:08
• 4Promenade de la mer05:10
• 5Le Président aime Chick04:30
• 6Jam Session08:06
• 7Paquito05:21
• 8À l'aube... vers le Fleuve...05:08
• Total Runtime44:29

Info for Street Beat Suite

At the height of her art, the composer and jazz pianist Lorraine Desmarais offers a new work that celebrates the estuary of St. Lawrence River, connecting the Great Lakes to the North Atlantic Ocean. Reminiscences of landscapes surveyed and loved, of people met and appreciated feed the movements of the music suite with pictorial accents. Requisitioning the full potential of the piano, an instrument that is at once melodic, harmonic, and percussive, Lorraine Desmarais paints a fresco with an extensive palette, sometimes figurative, sometimes abstract

Lorraine Desmarais Jazz Trio:
Lorraine Desmarais, piano
Alec Walkington, double bass
Camil Belisle, drums

Lorraine Desmarais
Pianist and composer Lorraine Desmarais is known in Canada, the USA, Europe, Mexico, China, Indonesia and Africa for her solo, trio and big band performances. She has also appeared with many symphony orchestras. She has twelve albums of original compositions. Three of these albums (Trio Lorraine Desmarais , Jazz pour Noël and Big Band) have received FÉLIX awards at the Gala de ADISQ. In 2011, she received a Doctorat Honoris Causa from the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM). In 2013, she was awarded by becoming Member of the Order of Canada. Lorraine Desmarais played in concert with artists of worldwide renown such as, Chick Corea, Oliver Jones, Jacky Terrasson, Joe Lovano, The New York Diva Big Band, the Brubeck Brothers and Paquito D’Rivera.

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