ARTIST: Laurent De Wilde
TITLE: The Present
LABEL: Nocturne
GENRE: Jazz
BITRATE: 191kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 53min total
RELEASE DATE: 2006-05-16
RIP DATE: 2006-05-17
Track List
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01. The Present 6:34
02. Move On 9:49
03. Fleurette Africaine 6:44
04. One For Ernie 6:15
05. Quiet - Not Quite 6:44
06. The Club 6:40
07. Up And Down 5:05
08. Late Late Blues 5:12
Release Notes:
Dividing his time between the United States and France, Laurent de Wilde has
found a welcoming audience in both countries. His third solo album, Open
Changes, resulted in de Wilde receiving a Django Reinhardt Award for Best French
Musician of 1992. In addition to leading his own group, de Wilde has worked as a
session player for Reggie Workman, Ralph Moore, Greg Osby, Joshua Redman, Dee
Dee Bridgewater, Aldo Romano, AndrΘ Ceccarelli, Harold Land, and Tom Harrell.
His first four albums featured tenor saxophonist Joe Coleman, drummer Jack
DeJohnette, and trumpet player Eddie Henderson. His fifth release,
Spoon-a-Rhythm, released in 1997, featured St. Thomas-born drummer Dion Parson
and former Miles Davis and Weather Report percussionist Bobby Thomas Jr..
Born in Washington, D.C., de Wilde moved to France before his fifth birthday.
After studying philosophy at Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, he returned to
the United States to attend Long Island University. While there, he met and
befriended pianist Joey Calderazzo.
Settling in New York, de Wilde was mentored by such influential pianists as Jim
McNeely, Kirk Lightsey, and Mulgrew Miller. A member of Eddie Henderson's band
in 1986, he recorded his debut solo album, Off the Boat, the following year. He
followed with the impressive solo albums Odd and Blue in 1989 and Colors of
Manhattan in 1990. Signing with Sony Jazz France in 1994, he released his fourth
album, The Back Burner, in 1995.
De Wilde authored a biography of influential jazz pianist Thelonious Monk in
1996, which received a Charles DeLaunay Prize for Best Book on Jazz.