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    "Following up the critically acclaimed 2008 release, Stéphane Furic-Leibovici and Chris Cheek return for this second volume, produced by Jim Black and featuring the alto saxophone giant Lee Konitz. An achievement in balance and taste, the resulting music is so thoughtful, intent and vibrant that it need not be forced upon you. The music unfolds for the listener in the subtlest of ways, as if the composer is challenging our very notion of what will come next. Like a mediation on color and space, you begin to let go of your assumptions and allow the harmonies and structures wash over you. The interaction of Konitz with his bandmates is a delicate dance of lyrical brilliance. Criss-crossing saxophones glide through Furic-Leibovici's intense and wide open bass work. Furic-Leibovici's compositions fuel extended interplay as the musicians seem to bounce from one musical theme to the next. This music is the epitome of finesse. Effortless and deep at the same time."

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Odysseus Returns Home
2.
Tomorrow I Shall Dance for You
3.
A Music of Tranquillity
4.
Float West on the Slender Current
5.
A l' Ile de Fressanges
6.
Les mains de Pénélope
7.
Phongsaly
8.
Local Heroes

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"This music is gold!"

- Jim Black

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"For Jugendstil II, composer Stéphane Furic-Leibovici has crafted an environment that presents not only the canny veteran Konitz, but the listener as well, with musical and conceptual challenges. Though recorded first (in 2005), this second volume to reference the artistic movement "Jugendstil" shares with its namesake a sense of fluid, sinuous, sensuous shapes abstracted from Nature. As with the earlier volume, Furic-Leibovici has composed a large part of the music in a style that reflects his penchant for chamber music.

The results are fascinating. Furic Leibovici's compositions offer intervallic relationships and melodic contours that point Konitz in unexpected harmonic directions, outside of the modulations found in his usual repertoire, and he responds with typically probing yet surprising embellishment. The interplay between the two saxophonists is remarkable. Several of the compositions sustain a similar, subdued mood, compelling the listener to notice the nuances that shape the lattice-like lines. Credit Furic-Leibovici with illuminating an Old Master in a new light."

Point of Departure - USA
Art Lange
June 6, 2010

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"Though renowned saxophonists Lee Konitz and Chris Cheek are the principal players on this date, it is bassist/composer Stéphane Furic-Leibovici who is the ostensible leader and music director. Brilliant telepathy and telemetry stir this drink, swimming past upstream currents with ultimate confidence. In many ways a beautiful recording, and one that should not intimidate anyone, Furic-Leibovici and his talented friends have made one of the better collections of improvised recordings of recent memory, and it comes with a very high recommendation."

All Music Guide
Michael G. Nastos
September 1, 2010

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"The wondrous nature of Jugendstil II is ensconced in the breathtaking improvisations of alto saxophone giant Lee Konitz, the way they intersect with the ideas of brilliant young tenor saxophonist Chris Cheek, and the effect they have on the birth of new compositions by virtuoso bassist Stéphane Furic-Leibovici. The miraculous glue that holds it all together are the magnificent songs. Add to that the exacting melodious lines that the maestro, Stéphane Furic-Leibovici, annunciates and declares with his fluid and masterly playing. Without intending to pick up from where Jugendstil I (ESP Disk - 2008) left off, this is a maiden voyage, beginning, appropriately, with the Homeric legend of Odysseus. That the music of the opening composition follows a concrete path, rich in the exactitude of that imagery is a tribute to the epic literary journey that laid the groundwork for modern poetry. Similarly, exquisite counterpoint establishes the multiplicity of legend. Mutual brilliance and acute sense of history make Jugendstil II an effort that, as is the case each time a project is released under Jugendstil's name, continues to grow in significance and stature."

All About Jazz - USA
Raul D'Game Rose
August 10, 2010

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released January 1, 2006

Personnel

Lee Konitz: alto saxophone
Chris Cheek: tenor saxophone
Stéphane Furic Leibovici: composition, double-bass
Jim Black: glockenspiel, vibraphone, chimes
Dan Dorrance: alto flute, bass flute, piccolo
Joy Plaisted: harp
Maria Garcia: celesta
Chris Speed: clarinet

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STÉPHANE FURIC-LEIBOVICI France

FURIC LEIBOVICI 's innovative work in the 1990's and 2000’s bridged late 20th-century through-composed music with music for virtuoso improvisers.

His current output - atonal, asymmetrical, rhythmically complex, is marked by a high-tension state which coexists with a nocturnal nature poetry.

His compositions include music for chamber orchestra and ensembles, solo instrumental, vocal works. ... more

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