Jazzhot, 16-08-2017

Nederlands Jazz ArchiefEnglish:Saxophonist Susanne Alt hails from Germany but has long been a part of our jazz scene. Royalty For Real has the aura of a prestigious product. It is also a tribute to the late trumpeter Roy Hargrove. Hargrove was fond of participating in the after-hours sessions at North Sea Jazz; Alt occasionally played alongside him there – hence Bel Air Bop, one of the seven tracks. The saxophonist/flutist wrote five of the tracks herself, in addition to The Nearness of You and Roy Allan by Hargrove. The album was recorded in February 2022 in New York with pianist James Hurt, bassist Gerald Cannon, and drummer Willie Jones III. - English (with help from Google Translate; if you have french skills please let me know and send me a corrected version!):With her sixth album, the German-born Dutch woman asserts herself who counts in the sphere of female saxofonists like Candy Dulfer or Melissa Aldana. She continues where she left with How To Kiss (Venus Tunes alt-005) and confirms it particularly with the presence of Fred Wesley, the trombonist of James Brown. Saxify retains the usual phrasing of the young woman (You and Me), but the color is much redder and the atmosphere more torrid. To translate all this on her new production, where Susanne Alt is the only composer, the young woman was joined by the presence of Funkadelic guitarist Michael Hampton and Fred Wesley's partner Reggie Ward, the explosive vocalist Berenice van Leer on Open Up which evokes Chaka Khan, and the young Lorrèn Rettich. The artist does not hesitate to mix the styles referring to the rap version Rapper's Delight (Throwback), Rhythm'n'Blues (The Harder We Fight), not to mention the more classical sounds extracted from her instrument. With Angeldelic, Susanne Alt is calmer and more lyrical to flutter her blue notes out of her instrument to meet the equally lightweight Wesley Trombone. The guitarist of Parliament completes the work with an intervention of highly blues tinged. Saxify in long version that closes the album, summarized by itself the ecstatic content of the last opus of the Dutch.