la diversité Nicolas Kummert

• 1 Rainbow people 04:44
• 2 Le vent se lève 01:46
• 3 Harmattan 04:06
• 4 Lighthouse 06:42
• 5 Hallelujah 04:11
• 6 Gnossienne 03:42
• 7 Gnossienne à deux 03:09
• 8 Liberté 06:00
• 9 Le peuple de l'arc-en-ciel 02:04
• 10 La terre ne ment pas 03:25
• 11 Diversity over purity 05:50
• 12 We'll be alright 03:34
• 13 And what if we're not? 02:42
• 14 Hallelujah again - in memory of Leonard Cohen 01:40
• Total Runtime 53:35

Info for la diversité

La Diversité is the major new album from internationally acclaimed Belgian saxophonist Nicolas Kummert (of Drifter, Jef Neve and GrooveTHing, Viktor Lazlo’s tribute to Billie Holiday, Yves Peeters Group and his own Nicolas Kummert Voices). Featuring Lionel Loueke, Blue Note Records’ guitarist and singer from Benin, Kummert’s quartet brings together four diverse and creative minds in a unified album that will propel him to wide international attention. Six of the album’s 14 tracks are actually duets featuring Nicolas and Lionel, highlighting the free-spirited interaction that has developed between them.

So, why La Diversité? “‘Purity’ doesn’t exist because it is an evolutionary dead-end. Diversity is reality, it is our only way to go. Diversity is today’s toughest challenge, but because purity would lead to extinction, we, as a species, have no choice but to embrace diversity.”

Nicolas’ interest in diversity in music has led him to play with African artists (amoung others) such as Manu Dibango and Keziah Jones, and sees him regularly travel to the continent to play concerts and creative residences.

Nicolas Kummert, tenor saxophone
Lionel Loueke, guitar
Nicolas Thys, double bass
Karl Jannuska, drums

Recorded, mixed and mastered in November and December 2016 at Sunny Side Inc, Brussels, Belgium by Nicolas Lefevre
Produced by Nicolas Kummert
Executive producer: Dave Stapleton

Nicolas Kummert
Jazz saxophonist, singer and composer Nicolas Kummert has always shown versatility and openness to all styles of music, he played and recorded with DRIFTER, Nicolas Kummert Voices, Pierre van Dormael, Yves Peeters Group, Jef Neve & GrooveTHing, Qu4tre, Alexi Tuomarila Quartet, Karl Jannuska group, Matthieu Marthouret, Viktor Lazlo… His main projects are his very own 'la diversité', a duo and quartet featuring Lionel Loueke, Nic Thys and Karl Jannuska and DRIFTER with long time friend Alexi Tuomarila on piano . Nicolas is also active on the African music scene (with singers like Patrick Ruffino, or occasionally Manu Di Bango, Keziah Jones), on the DJ scene with hip hop DJs (Grazzhoppa DJ bigband,…) and house DJs such as Patrick Balzat & balMODERNSOUNDsystem, Da Binci Code (studio recordings and shows in famous clubs like the Ministry of Sound in London, Teatro Kapital in Madrid…). Nicolas also played a lot with Viktor Lazlo and Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt’s project “My name is Billie Holiday”, a magnificent tribute to Lady Day that already played approximately 200 shows in France, Belgium, Holland, Martinique and Turkey.

In his young career, he recorded over 30 CDs as a leader or as sideman and played in more than 40 countries worldwide.

This album contains no booklet.