Indi-Gêne Noé Codjia & Neil Saidi Quintet

• 1 Blue Ngolo 01:27
• 2 Le Libre Siffleur 08:08
• 3 Cali 05:47
• 4 Algorhythm Changes 06:17
• 5 Step in or Step Out 04:52
• 6 Dodécabulle 05:31
• 7 Indi-Gêne ? 06:23
• 8 Covidex Perplex 09:11
• 9 Covidus Fugit 04:38
• 10 Cream's Crib 05:28
• 11 God Save the Changes 05:43
• Total Runtime 01:03:25

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Trumpeter Noé Codjia and saxophonist Neil Saidi have been working together ever since they met at a jam session just over ten years ago. In 2014 they left for New York, to train at the well-known New School. When they returned to Paris in 2016, they founded a collective of young musicians called The Zoot Collective. The aim of this initiative is to bring together as many musicians of their generation as possible with original, creative projects. A good example is the quintet they lead, completed by the best new talents from the Parisian scene. Codjia, Saidi and their colleagues pay tribute to the styles of jazz they most appreciate – swing, bop and hard-bop – in combination with self-penned music.

Noé Codjia, trumpet
Neil Saidi, tenor saxophone
Noé Huchard, piano
Luca Fattorini, double bass
Malte Arndal, drums

Neil Saidi
is a young French saxophonist born in 1991. Mainly playing alto saxophone, he can also be heard regularly on tenor and baritone saxophones. He studied at the CNSM in Paris and at the New School for Jazz in New York. Today he is the artistic director of ZOOT Collective, which he founded in 2016 with other French musicians of his generation. This collective brings together young talented musicians around their passion for jazz and their desire to propose original artistic creations. Among his main influences we can mention Sonny Rollins, Lester Young, Charlie Parker, Jackie McLean, Gerry Mulligan. In love with be-bop, he digs this furrow and develops over the years his musical personality according to new discoveries and musical meetings.

Neil composes and arranges music for small and large groups. His latest works include the "Zoot Symphonic" project, the "Pannonica" show and the latest Zoot Octet record, "Zoot Suite Vol.2". The latter received a warm welcome from the critics (Indispensable Jazz News, Record of the day on TSF Jazz, Record of the week on the club Jazz a Fip).

Neil has the chance to share the stage with more experienced musicians such as Alain Jean-Marie, Gilles Naturel, Philippe Soirat... With whom he has recently recorded a record, accompanied by his trumpeter sidekick Noé Codjia, to be released in 2022. Neil has lived in New York, where he studied under various grants (Fulbright Commission and Safran Foundation for Music). There he recorded his first album "New York Sessions" released on "Gut String Records", a photograph of his time there and the beautiful musical encounters that took place there.

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