Olivier ker Ourio Quartet

Presented by Le Sunset (L-1017720-721-722)In 2020 following “difficult situations” the harmonica player had lost the desire to compose and tell stories. This happens at some point in their lives to many jazz musicians. Today he found joy harmony and serenity. You can hear this throughout his new album. An act of resistance? Rather resilience. By choosing to let go Ker Ourio trusted his suddenly renewed desire to compose beautiful dancing melodies. “To play the harmonica is to be almost a singer.”And this is true from the first range of the CD. By the natural fluidity of its phrasing and the precision of its implementation by the variety of the timbre and its effects by its elegant slips and sensual feltings a kind of "crowded meow" (Colette) Ker Ourio sings and enchants. a tribute to his Maître Toots in 2023 at Jazz Club de Dunkerque with André Charlier and Benoît Sourisse tandem twin almost telepathic he knew that it was necessary so much the jubilation to play together was shared quickly continue this complicit companionship. Evidence: there is Eddy Louiss at Sourisse in his way of purring and roaring his B3 in a roll of chaloupées rhythms.Bonus: on two titles we discover with happiness the unpublished alloy of three instrument stamps: the voluptuous wedding of the “mouth organ” with the Hammond organ and the steel drum of Andy Narell. Mathis Cordier (don't forget his name!) guitarist barely 22 years old and freshly arrived in Paris with triple ultramarine origins (Meeting, Guyana and Îles Marquises) which here takes in its free and singular way the witness that he Sylvain Luc.Pascal Anquetil – CHOC JAZZMAGAZINE APRIL 2026