When Endangered Blood take the stage at about 10 PM this Friday at
Le petit Faucheux, this very active venue dedicated to improvised music, as
part of the Festival Émergences, everybody seems to know them already, which in
a place where the programing goes far beyond mainstream jazz, must be more of
the exception than the rule. The excitement fills the air along with the
tranquil assurance that everything can but go well.
Well, one hour or so later (what! already?), only a few of the around 170 spectators, if any, will look disappointed. The warm reception matches the festive interaction onstage, and the New-Yorkers come back for two playful encores, one being an all-together furious rendition of "Andrew's Ditty Variation One”, the last track of their first, self-titled album as a quartet, and tribute to their friend and neighbor, key jazz figure Andrew d'Angelo, for whom ...
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