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Jean-Paul Celea - Yes Ornette! (2012) {OutNote Music}
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Jazz / Avant-Garde Jazz / Double Bass

Virtuoso musician and professor of classical double bass at the Paris Conservatoire, Jean-Paul Celea is one of those rare soloists who is as convincing in classical or contemporary music as in jazz – where the rigour of his aesthetic choices and openness to the freest forms of today's music are served by a sumptuous sonority. Constantly affirming his taste for bridges, Celea is now initiating this new trio with his longstanding accomplice Wolfgang Reisinger, a major player on the Austrian scene, in particular within the Vienna Art Orchestra. Sought after by such masters as Dave Liebman and Joachim Kühn, their tandem stands out as one of the most luxurious European rhythmics of the time.