New Album: Kevin Seddiki and Jean-Louis Matinier

Kevin Seddiki is an extraordinarly talented musician and an old friend and classmate of mine from when I was studying in France. He recently released an album with accordionist Jean-Lousi Matinier on ECM and it’s really good. This was one of the albums that got me through the Corona times this year; I must have listened to it fifty times already in the shop already. It has a consistent mood and is very concise for a Jazz album; it has a satisfying arch and works really well as an album, as opposed to just a bunch songs thrown together. It also sounds funny to say, but their rendition of Greensleeves/Amsterdam is pretty epic; one wouldn’t think that the world needed another version of that song, but it apparently did! :)

Here's a video of them performing three songs off the album live.